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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

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.

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Preserving your information from digital disasters

Preservica

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.

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Information Governance Pressure Points – 3 Common Areas of Failure

AIIM

Back in the day, when work was centralized in locations and on devices “within” the enterprise, it was reasonable to assume that control could most effectively be maintained by managing security at the firewall. Information security was largely a function of “keeping the bad guys out.”. Data breaches and other risks of governance gaps.

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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. 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?

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HSMs: Facilitating Key Management in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Organizations are actively working to prevent data breaches by encrypting their sensitive information. Encryption isn’t a foolproof security measure, however. 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.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Organizations use DRM technologies and solutions to securely manage intellectual property (IP) rights and monetize the content. DRM helps ensure the secure and trusted exchange of content between a seller and a buyer and ensures that only the buyer is granted the privileges allowed by the seller. Digital Rights Management (DRM).

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. Let The Data Flow. We all lose when the data can’t flow. In my work at Columbia, I’m currently obsessed with two things. And second… Governance.