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Data Archiving Defined

Record Nations

Every bit and byte holds significance within your physical and digital business data. Data archiving is essential for maintaining regulatory compliance, preserving historical records, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving operational efficiency. It’s not merely about.

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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).

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Choosing to Store, Scan, or Shred Your Documents: A Comprehensive Guide

Armstrong Archives

This reality has made data security increasingly important, requiring a sea change in the way companies handle their documents. At Armstrong Archives , we’re here to help you navigate the transition into the digital age while still maintaining your essential paper files. But don’t worry, Armstrong Archives can help.

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Unwrapping the Archives

The Texas Record

When most people think of archives, the first thing that comes to mind is Indiana Jones swinging on vines and storing artifacts in giant rooms. While that is an interesting popular image, the archives and archivists here at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) are the protectors of documented history.

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Understanding and Documenting the Basis of Retention Periods

ARMA International

Highly regulated industries have even more of a recordkeeping burden, but those should be documented as well. There is no legal obligation to retain such records, but the organization may have a valid business need to keep such information for re-use, or archival purposes.

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Archives Overtake Office Documents as the Most Popular File Type to Deliver Malware

KnowBe4

Taking the lead over the use of Word, Excel, PDF, and other office-type documents in attacks, new data shows that files like ZIP and RAR have grown in popularity by 11% last quarter.

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IT Army of Ukraine gained access to a 1.5GB archive from Gazprom

Security Affairs

GB archive. GB archive belonging to the Russian energy giant Gazprom. The group of hacktivists announced the hack on their Telegram channel claiming that the archive contains more than 6,000 files of the companies of the Gazprom group. “The archive with a capacity of 1.5 “The archive with a capacity of 1.5