Gimmal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

ROT 52

ROT Metadata Cleanup Records Management 52

Preservica

JUNE 8, 2020

Digital disasters of systems are increasingly common due to a number of factors including human error, computer job error, natural and manmade disasters, cybercrime, bit rot, and file format obsolescence. One might picture data as a bunch of 0s and 1s, but data can manifest itself as photographs, music, or vital personal information.

ROT 52

ROT Digital preservation Data breaches Archiving 52

AIIM

JUNE 3, 2020

62% of organizations have essentially given up on the ROT problem, relegating it to manual approaches or simply keeping everything. Data breaches and other risks of governance gaps. Key Stats on Information “end points”. Only 40% have automated processes to ensure the deletion of personal information. Can’t make the live event?

Information governance 155

Information governance Government ROT Digital transformation 155

Everteam

DECEMBER 17, 2018

You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. To help you out, here are four ways you can pull together the numbers to determine the ROI from cleaning out redundant, duplicate and trivial information (ROT). If it’s ROT, wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of it completely?

Cleanup 49

Cleanup ROT Archiving Compliance 49

AIIM

JANUARY 5, 2018

Now - with the maturing of a new tech saavy generation, and the advent and proliferation of apps - (everyone has a smart phone) - we have to also recognize and address the real risk of data breaches. We've gone through an age of innocence - internet was free, all people were perceived as "nice", and data was loose and wild.

ROT 80

ROT Mining Data breaches Education 80

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Organizations are actively working to prevent data breaches by encrypting their sensitive information. If attackers get control of an organization’s encryption keys, for instance, they can use them to decrypt its data and thereby steal its plaintext contents. ROT is most often protected by a hardened hardware module like an HSM.

Cloud 144

Cloud ROT Encryption Marketing 144

John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. We all lose when the data can’t flow. In my work at Columbia, I’m currently obsessed with two things. How much have you thought about that word in the past two years?

Government 92

Government IT Marketing ROT 92