This white paper focuses on the critical need to manage outbound content sent using email, instant messages, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts and the growing number of other venues from which damaging content might be sent.
This white paper discusses the various reasons to archive email and other electronic content. However, it goes beyond that to provide some concrete reasons and justification for deploying and maintaining an archiving system, most of which are based on the cost savings that archiving can provide - both direct cost savings and reduced costs arising from lowered risk.
Jan 2010 - Business is complex and dynamic, and requires agility to stay competitive. Market leadership requires the organization is quick to respond to changing conditions - to pause means loss. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes often work against business agility. Requirements and initiatives managed across numerous silos, using manual or varying technology approaches, burden the business. The lackof a common process and technology architecture comes at a significant management cost.
Published: January, 2010 - For the past eight years, government agencies have struggled to comply with the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA).1
Published: December, 2009 - While the market seems eager to grasp onto the phrase "risk intelligence," it means nothing if corporations cannot take action on the intelligence it provides. Being intelligent is not the same as being wise - most organizations lack both risk intelligence and wisdom.
Published: September, 2009 - Success in today's dynamic business environment requires the organization to integrate, build, and support business process with an enterprise view of risk and compliance. Without a new approach to risk and compliance, the scattered and non-integrated risk and compliance approaches of the past fail and introduce greater risk and regulatory threats to the business.
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.
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.