Once an organization has become litigation ready by creating an ESI survey data map,implementing a records retention and deletion process, and establishing a litigation hold process, additional steps can be taken to further prepare for legal actions.

Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online.

- An Osterman Research white paper, sponsored by MX Logic

Security costs are large & growing, with technical countermeasures dominated by on-premise licensed solutions. Companies wrestling with providing stronger security and meeting compliance requirements are seeking more efficient ways to provide security.

This whitepaper will examine PCI DSS and explain how Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce the cost of addressing compliance by streamlining and automating the IT audit process, unifying control and compliance frameworks, automating assessment and remediation processes, and enabling continuous monitor­ing of their compliance and IT risk management posture.

Organizations today are finding themselves under increasing pressure, both legal and regulatory, to properly retain or delete documents. While policies and procedures for paper records may seem adequate, many companies find it difficult to translate those policies and requirements to electronically stored information (ESI) such as e-mail messages and electronic document files.

Although data privacy and identity theft have a higher profile in the minds of consumers, data retention issues can have a far greater financial impact on businesses. Every company, whether public or private, large or small, must have a policy and enforcement system to deal with the messages and files generated by the organization every day.

Litigation always, has been, and will continue to be, a reality of doing business. What is changing, however, is discovery and its focus on electronically stored information (often abbreviated ESI).