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4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup

Everteam

You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. How do you determine which storage tiers you need, and how much you need of each if you aren’t regularly evaluating and cleaning up your data? But your management team doesn’t see the point. Time Saving/Efficiency Improvements.

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Data loss prevention (DLP) best practices are principles that help prevent intentional or unintentional data erasure. By following these guidelines, organizations can reduce the detrimental impact of data loss and quickly resume operations after an incident. Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7%

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A ransomware attack took 100 Romanian hospitals down

Security Affairs

The attack took place on February 11 and encrypted data in the production servers. The Romanian government also announced extraordinary preventive measures to prevent other hospitals from being impacted by the incident.

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GUEST ESSAY: Too many SMBs continue to pay ransomware crooks — exacerbating the problem

The Last Watchdog

The Ward Hadaway law firm lost sensitive client data to ransomware purveyors who demanded $6 million, or else they’d publish the data from the firm’s high profile clients online. They paid $400,000 to regain access to accounts and protect prior and current students and teachers, whose Social Security numbers were in the data.

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Use It, Save It, Or Lose It: Spring Cleaning for Information Governance

Speaker: Speakers Michelle Kirk of Georgia Pacific, Darla White of Sanofi, & Scott McVeigh of Onna

Spring has sprung, which means it’s time to get your data house in order. As an organization’s most valuable asset, data should be cared for and integrated, managed, archived, and deleted as appropriate. Watch this webinar on-demand to learn about: Data lifecycle management. Information governance for unstructured data.

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Spring Cleaning

The Texas Record

This article, “How Long is AV,” discusses RM’s most customizable retention code, AV, and what it could mean for your particular government. Data and Disposition: How Disposition Protects Loss of Privacy in a Data-Driven World FAQ: Why Use a Disposition Log? How Long is “AV”? Create your team!

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Looking Back At Information Governance in 2018

Everteam

2018 was the year enterprises started seriously investing in their information governance programs. It’s not that they didn’t do governance before, but the increase in compliance and regulations, including the new privacy regulations has pushed for improvements to how enterprise think about and apply information governance processes.