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What is Information Capture? Definition, Purpose, and Value

AIIM

Note that this can include scanning in, or otherwise digitizing, paper and other physical documents. Records must be trustworthy, reliable, and authentic and a key consideration for that is to capture the record in its context as close to the event it documents as possible. The vast majority of the time, we are not creating records.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Unlike desktop computers, laptops don’t have extra covers to protect them from water damage, which increases your risk of electronic components short circuiting. Computer viruses. That’s because, as the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) explains , data breaches encompass all events that.

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Arup Library: 60 years

CILIP

She remembered that everything was slow and laborious at that time, as everything was done on paper. Arup Library in the Electronic Age. This followed the successful transfer of Arup job records to a DEC10 Mainframe computer in 1978, which greatly sped up the data handling managed by the library.

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Off the Record: Ransomware Threats and RM Modernization, Apple Promotes Access and Washington Denies Access

The Texas Record

The city of Atlanta was recently hit with a hacking attack that took control of much of the city’s computer network and this type of event is not a one off. The Atlanta hack robbed employees of their access to key systems, “leaving them with pen and paper to conduct official business.” Talk about reverting to the stone age.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Before, travellers booked their trips through agents, who issued paper tickets, confirmations, car-rental documents, and so on. There is virtually no paper today. Passengers benefited with low fares.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

Publishers retained the original long-lasting microfilm masters to make even more copies from, or add to their business archives, rendering the retention and management of paper versions moot. Computers made it possible to digitize that microfilm, secure it in a database, distribute publications even more widely.