Whitepapers

It’s a sad reality but, however many precautions you take, there’s no such thing as 100% protection in data security. The human element means that sooner or later, an incident probably will occur and when it does, you need to make sure you have the right procedures policies and controls to avoid regulatory or audit scrutiny.

It’s important to remember that it’s not illegal to lose data, but it is illegal not to take appropriate measures to protect it – you need to be able to demonstrate that your company is managing the risk responsibly, otherwise you could find yourself in some trouble.

Download Whitepaper

Managing Content and information risk across the enterprise

Fundamentally, information risk management is a subset of overall risk management and the core means for addressing risk management is compliance.

The biggest problem in bringing about proper information risk management is little different from that for compliance overall – the mindset of management can often be to see compliance as a burden with no business advantages or, at best, a burden not offset by direct business benefit. Yet the roots of compliance can also be seen as the roots to good business practice. Compliance, both internal or external, generally develops as a direct result of not-so-good practice. Generally someone did something wrong or failed to do something right and compliance stipulations – internal or external – directly seek to ensure that error, or even willing malpractice – does not recur.

Download Whitepaper

Managing Information Risk with Lateral Hires and Lawyer Departures

Today, the explosion of electronic information technology has increased the opportunity for error and oversight. However, in recent years, many firms have adopted confidentiality software tools to mitigate these risks. As firms embrace more thorough approaches to compliance, they’ve created stricter de facto industry standards. At the same time, court, client and insurance expectations have also risen. Now more than ever, it is critically important that IT and risk staff take sufficient measures to enhance their firms’ response strategies. This paper examines the challenges with lateral hires, how to manage risk when lawyers leave and the realities of policy versus practice. It also takes an in-depth look and how to combat the data leakage risks that frequent the industry today.

Download Whitepaper

Is Your Enterprise ‘Information Risky’ or ‘Information Ready’?

The size and complexity of enterprise data stores have increased to the point that information now poses more of a challenge than an advantage to most enterprises. The processes of categorising, preserving, collecting and searching data have always been complex and costly to manage and maintain. This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that enterprises are creating exponentially more data every year. And, when combined with increasingly stringent regulatory oversight and the threat of litigation constantly looming, enterprise data management has quickly evolved from a challenge to a full-scale threat.

Download Whitepaper

The Four Stages of the eDisclosure Lifecycle

From its advent fifteen years ago with the growth of word processing and email, the eDisclosure industry has evolved substantially. Similar to internet security and networking, it began life as a subset of a much older process, and has since progressed from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood. So, just how ‘old’ is eDisclosure? And where is it headed from here? Recommind looks to address these questions within this paper and, at the risk of oversimplifying things, have divided the life of eDisclosure into four distinct stages, equating each to the human lifespan: infancy/childhood, adolescence/teenage years, adulthood, and what we’ll respectfully call ‘seniority’.

Download Whitepaper

2009 Annual Study: Global Cost of a Data Breach

This 2009 Ponemon Institute benchmark study, sponsored by PGP Corporation, examines the comparative cost incurred by organisations in five countries after experiencing a data breach. Results were not hypothetical responses; they represent cost estimates for activities resulting from actual data loss incidents. This is the first annual survey of this issue.

Download Whitepaper

How to implement a data loss prevention strategy

The workplace is becoming increasingly mobile with users accessing corporate data from anywhere at any time. While this trend offers organisations significant productivity benefits, it also increases the risk of data loss that could cause irreparable harm. This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by quickly looking at what’s driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss and how it can be comprehensively tackled using Sophos solutions. It then provides practical implementation advice and examples.

Download Whitepaper