InfoRiskAwareness Project boosts partner roster with Eversheds

Mon 9 May 2011 @ 12:37

Industry commentator at legal heavyweight Eversheds joins the InfoRiskAwareness Project to help enterprises get to grips with information risk

The InfoRiskAwareness Project today announced the addition of international law firm Eversheds to the Project’s partner community. With regular contributions from industry stalwart Mark Surguy (Eversheds), the firm joins the InfoRiskAwareness Project’s existing partners – eDisclosure Information Project, Exterro, Field Fisher Waterhouse, IntApp, Open Text, SearchSecurity.co.uk and predictive information management software specialist Recommind – in its mission to raise awareness of the impact of information risk on UK and European businesses.

The Project, which kicked off in May 2010, celebrates its first anniversary this week with a schedule of events including a Q&A panel set to review the past year in information risk, as well as assessing key items on the horizon – such as the impact that the controversial UK Bribery Act will have on the business landscape – and the release of its second annual set of information risk research*.

“The information risk issue is no longer an isolated problem that organisations can sweep under the carpet. Due to the very nature of business critical information being now almost entirely online, the consequences reach far and wide affecting all types of industries,” said Mark Surguy, partner at Eversheds. “The InfoRiskAwareness Project is providing companies with sound advice on how they can take control of their own information reserves in the face of real-time investigations. We look forward to contributing to this on-the-pulse guidance and helping as many organisations as possible to prepare for the inevitable information overload challenges.”

With the combined information management expertise of its like-minded partners, InfoRiskAwareness.co.uk – the Project’s online resource hub – has proved an invaluable knowledge base for businesses looking to gain a better understanding of the myriad of risks associated with electronic information, and how best to guard against them. With the UK’s heightened regulatory climate gathering significant pace over the past year, including an increase in high-profile investigations and the rise in financial penalties handed out by the ICO, the InfoRiskAwareness Project has provided informative blogs, in-depth whitepapers and best practice guides covering such topics as regulatory compliance, social media, insider fraud, eDisclosure and cloud computing, in its efforts to educate companies on the importance of information risk.

* Information risk research conducted in conjunction with Vanson Bourne, surveying 200 CIOs within large UK organisations, April 2011 (due for release on Wednesday 11th May)

About the InfoRiskAwareness Project

The InfoRiskAwareness Project is an independent resource driven by an alliance of like-minded organisations in the information risk industry, and through a series of events and online resources, is designed to generate awareness of information risk and provide an ongoing community to support UK and European organisations.

For more information on InfoRiskAwareness, visit:

Website: http://inforiskawareness.co.uk/

Twitter: @inforiskaware

LinkedIn: InfoRiskAwareness

InfoRiskAwareness Project partner information

Eversheds

Eversheds is an international law firm with a clear vision of the future. A firm that is adapting to new demands and business pressures and that understands what clients need today and, equally important, what they will need tomorrow. Eversheds has recognised that the marketplace is changing, and analysed what is shaping the industries we serve. Now we are focusing on creative and cost-effective solutions that ensure our clients receive the best service at the best price.

Mark Surguy is a Partner within the Commercial Dispute Resolution group, specialising in multi-disciplinary, complex and commercially sensitive cases where urgent legal remedies are required and where large volumes of electronically-stored information have to be collected, searched and produced in court or to the authorities.