OK, IT mavens, listen up…how much better would your life be if you only had to manage and protect 20% of your company’s data? By eliminating 80% of your data you could free up oodles of storage, reduce licensing costs,
Information Bytes
The law blog for data with people problems
Information Bytes, published by Information Governance Group, focuses on practical aspects of information governance including data retention, data management, defensible disposition, and data security. The blog addresses compliance with regulatory requirements, risk mitigation related to data handling, and strategies for maximizing the value of organizational information. It covers topics such as establishing legally validated records retention schedules, implementing information management policies, data breach response readiness, and aligning information governance initiatives with business objectives. The content also explores the intersection of information governance with litigation discovery and privacy regulations, providing guidance for organizations to manage information cost-effectively while controlling legal and security risks.
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Why govern your information? Reason #6: It’s OK to destroy your data.
By Peter Sloan
It lingers on – that vaguely guilty feeling that there’s something sanctionable, even illegal, about routinely destroying business data. That’s nonsense. It is well-settled United States law that a company may indeed dispose of business data, if done in good faith, pursuant to…
When is a “data breach” not a breach?
By Peter Sloan
I wish I had a bitcoin for every time I get an email with the subject line “Data Breach,” yet the facts upon investigation reveal no notifiable breach occurred.
In the Venn diagram of cyber security, the big rectangle is…
Ants, Dinosaurs, and Information Governance
By Peter Sloan
“What if ants were as big as dinosaurs?” I remember asking my kids that question, forever ago when they were young. Maybe the thought came from reruns of old monster movies, like the 1954 classic Them! (pictured here). Anyway, it was a…
We’re still babes in the wood when it comes to electronic messaging
There’s been a lot of news lately about “secret” messaging in government, including inside the White House and the EPA, and last week’s revelation that Vice President Pence conducted state business with a private email account while Governor of Indiana.…
So, Governor Pence used his hacked AOL account for state business – can we please now depoliticize data security?
By Peter Sloan
Sorry to revive ugly memories of last fall’s vituperative presidential campaign, in which bile was spewed over candidate Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State, and its vulnerability to hacking. Clinton eventually conceded that her use of a…
X Percent for Information Governance
By Peter Sloan
It happens every day. A company spends a huge amount of money on a new technology system, without fully addressing the information implications. Maybe the decision (to move on-premise operations to a cloud SaaS or PaaS, or to retire and replace an enterprise…
What’s our privacy worth? According to the Verizon/Yahoo deal, about 23 cents.
By Peter Sloan
News reports today indicate that Verizon is pushing ahead with its purchase of Yahoo’s core internet business, despite Yahoo’s massive data breaches. Yahoo suffered a breach of 500 million user accounts in 2014, on the heels of a one billion…
Why govern your information? Reason #7: Merely adding more storage and more tools won’t solve your data problems
By Peter Sloan
As the information tide relentlessly rises, many organizations simply see an IT problem, to be fixed with a purely IT solution – more storage capacity, more tools, or both. But merely adding more storage is a reaction, not a strategy. And adding technology…
Me, my TV, IoT, and the FTC – who’s watching whom?
By Peter Sloan
On Monday the Federal Trade Commission announced a $2.2 million settlement with VISIO, one of the world’s leading providers of smart TVs. The deal settles charges by the FTC and New Jersey’s Attorney General that VISIO collected data from 11 million consumer TVs, without consumers’…