Lack of Understanding of E-Discovery and Regulatory Requirements Exposes Businesses to Legal and Compliance Risks

RESTON, Va.–Surety, LLC, the leading provider of data integrity solutions, today announced the results of the 2008 Email Security and Authentication Survey. The survey of more than 800 IT security, email security and compliance professionals revealed that 65 percent of respondents lack confidence that their organization’s email records would be admitted as authenticated evidence in [...]

US Government Accountability Office Releases Report on Challenges in Implementing an Electronic Records Archive

On May 14, 2008, the GAO released a status report on the efforts to implement an Electronic Records Archive for the Federal Government.  The 21-page report chronicles the numerous challenges encountered in the massive project started back in 2001. Cost over-runs and delays in the project plan make clear that the public sector faces the same challenges as [...]

Electronic Communications Preservation Act — Government’s Attempt to Tame Electronically Stored Information

Finding “what you need when you need it” sounds simple enough, but the dramatic explosion of electronically stored information generated worldwide over the last few years has left individuals, business organizations, and even governments seriously challenged with knowledge management. 
To find what one needs when one needs it, we first must determine what we don’t need [...]