Posts Tagged ‘Risk’

Richard Ellis, manager UK & Ireland, Iron Mountain Digital warned IT departments that ignoring the growth of e-mail data are putting business continuity at risk.

Even with the rise of new collaboration technologies, e-mail remains the blood flow of the business. The faster it flows, the faster business happens and so it is little surprise that e-mail data is growing daily – up to 30% annually according to some industry analysts.

A large amount of the cost of discovering electronically stored information (ESI) is the cost of actually finding it, no matter where it is.

ESI can hide anywhere in a corporate infrastructure including custodian workstations, network share drives, USB thumb drives, CD/DVDs–even iPods. How do you speed the collection of responsive records as well as more fully control and insure the placement of litigation holds?

Raise your hand if you believe having access to a complete set of data is a liability…Now raise your hand if you believe not capturing specific data, even if you can,  if it does not have any noticeable business value is a legal risk and a violation of the FRCP…

Many companies I speak with mention the fact that they have some small percentage of their email traffic in an encrypted format. This can be either because of company or regulatory requirement or even more, because employees don’t want the content read by the company.

Encrypted email can represent a major risk in a corporate civil litigation if the company doesn’t have the encryption key.