Volkswagen just learned an expensive lesson about the dangers of ROT
By: Nate Latessa, VP of Corporate Services Volkswagen and Audi are the latest victims of a data breach that exposed the contact info on 3.3 million customers, including phone numbers, email address...
So You Think Privacy Compliance is Costly?
By: Linda Coniglio, Director of Privacy and Information Governance The privacy and compliance arena is quite active these days and, according to Gartner, will continue to be in the near future. Ga...
Process FOIA Requests More Efficiently
By James Perkins, Chief Client Officer Processing a Freedom of Information Act request is a complex and time-consuming task. Federal agencies struggle to keep up with the workload, and the lack of ...
Reasons Why You Should Clean Up Your File Shares
Rachel Desormes, Information Governance Consultant Fact: Unstructured data grows by 55-65% each year (Marr, 2019). Fact: 69% of the information retained by most companies has no business, legal or ...
Will 2021 be the year that we finally get a federal consumer privacy law?
By: Linda Coniglio, Director of Privacy and Information Governance On March 10, Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01) introduced the Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act which creates a natio...
Modernizing with Cloud Content Solutions
Scott Burt, VP of Corporate Solutions When someone moves to a new home, they typically clean up and dispose of belongings that are no longer useful so that they have fewer things to transport to th...
What the Pipeline Didn’t Prepare For: Knowing Where Your Data Lives Gives You Control
Nate Latessa, VP of Corporate Services Ransomware attacks increased by 485% in 2020 compared to 2019 and they do not appear to be slowing down anytime soon. This week’s attack on the Colonial Pi...
Privacy Regulations Popping Up Like Spring Flowers
By: Linda Coniglio, Director of Privacy and Information Governance California and Virginia have passed comprehensive privacy regulations. The California law has been amended. More than 10 othe...
The Benefits of Government Agencies Moving to the Cloud
By: James Perkins, Chief Client Officer Nearly 10 years ago, the U.S. government launched the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to promote and standardize the adoption of ...
The first 24 hours: data breach checklist for legal and compliance
By: Nate Latessa, Vice President of Corporate Services Every 11 seconds this year, a business will experience a ransomware attack, according to a projection by Cybersecurity Ventures. Back in 2016,...