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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

Save Time – with automatic back-ups, data analysis, and classification (when set up right). Improve Decision Making – your leadership team can make key business decisions based on current, relevant, and enriched data. Step 2: Classify Your Data. It also reduces storage costs by eradicating ROT data.

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Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records

WIRED Threat Level

The so-called Collections #1-5 represent a gargantuan, patched-together Frankenstein of rotting personal data.

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How Organizations Are Preparing for GDPR

Gimmal

The general goal of this regulation is to strengthen data protections under a unifying system for all individuals in Europe and to allow citizens more control over their personal data. Of course, this affects many companies in North America that do any business in Europe if personal data is part of the transaction.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

Determine the Value of the Information in the Source System: Does the source system store formal business records such as financial data, personnel files, contracts, etc.? Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)? Does it store information that can no longer be recreated?

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