Does your organization utilize Office 365 for email? Is your organization required to journal email for compliance, legal, or business requirements? Do your Attorneys complain about the time it takes to find information for an eDiscovery request? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then keep reading. Continue reading
Data Sovereignty and the GDPR; Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
As more companies move their data to the cloud, the question of data sovereignty is becoming a hotter topic. Data sovereignty is the requirement that digital data is subject to the laws of the country in which it is collected or processed. Many countries have requirements that data collected in a particular country must stay in that country. They argue that it’s in the Government’s interest to protect their citizen’s personal information against any misuse. Continue reading
The Right to be Forgotten Versus The Need to Backup
A great deal has been written about the GDPR and CCPA privacy laws, both of which includes a “right to be forgotten.” The right to be forgotten is an idea that was put into practice in the European Union (EU) in May 2018 with the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). Continue reading
Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor, not an AI – Healthcare and Machine Learning
Healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. In 2016, healthcare costs in the US were estimated to be almost 18 percent of GDP. The healthcare industry is seeing an unprecedented and accelerating growth of ESI. This avalanche of data is being generated from the digitization of healthcare information, EHR systems, precision and personalized medicine, health information exchanges, new imaging technologies (DICOM), new regulations, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), and other major technology developments. Continue reading
The Privacy Shield Scheme and the GDPR
The EU/US, Safe Harbor scheme, was struck down by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJECU) in October of 2015 putting companies on both sides of the Atlantic in a difficult position – not having a process for legally transferring data out of the EU to the US. Continue reading
My Healthcare Data is Where?
According to IDC, healthcare data is one of the fastest growing segments of the digital universe – growing from 153 exabytes in 2013 to an estimated 2,314 exabytes in 2020, a 48% annual growth rate. So where will the healthcare industry put all of this critical and sensitive data and how long must it be held?
The Need for Social Media Archiving
In my frequent discussions with customers about the benefits of cloud archiving for regulatory, legal, and business reasons, I still find a large percentage that still don’t worry about archiving corporate social media content.