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Building Resilience in Disaster Recovery with Information Governance: 7 Core Success Factors
As organizations navigate a landscape of increasing cyber threats, the need for robust disaster recovery (DR) strategies grounded in...
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Best Practices Information Governance Can Prevent (or at least mitigate) Catastrophic Data Breach: The Case of Allium UPI in Estonia
Earlier this year, a data breach at Allium UPI, compromised the personal information of nearly half of Estonia’s population. This type...
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Why Information Governance is Critical to the Success of Smaller, Nimbler AI Models
The AI industry has witnessed a shift from developing enormous, all-encompassing models like OpenAI's GPT-4, which boasts over a trillion...
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Using IG to Reduce Generative AI Inaccuracy!
44% of the respondents to the latest McKinsey generative AI adoption survey reported negative consequences arising from generative AI...
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Why Information Governance is Key to Promoting M&A Due Diligence Success for Private Equity Firms
The success of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by private equity firms relies heavily on comprehensive due diligence processes, where...
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Best Practices and Strategies for Achieving Information Governance Success with Shift Left Data Governance (and Integrating that Approach into Your IG and Privacy by Design Frameworks)
With the increasing centralization of data governance and a strategic focus on revenue generation, companies are prioritizing a Shift...
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Strengthening Municipal ECM Systems Through Information Governance
In 2023, the city of Oakland experienced a ransomware attack that disrupted multiple city services, leading to data leaks of sensitive...
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Harnessing Automation for Effective SaaS Data Management and Compliance
As organizations grapple with the challenge of managing vast amounts of unmanaged data across Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) systems, there...
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Intelligent Automation Process Improvement and IG: 2 Peas in a Pod...
Anyone who has been following us knows that we believe in the deep connection between intelligent automation process improvement and...
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HR Departments Have A Vital Role In Managing Personnel Information
HR departments have a vital role in managing personnel information, which includes sensitive and confidential data. In addition to their...
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New Data Breach Statistics
Today's focus -- some new data breach statistics (and a few slightly older ones) Percentage of data breaches in 2022 involving human...
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New Rules - Companies Must Report Any Cybersecurity Incidents
The SEC recently implemented new rules obligating public companies to disclose material cybersecurity incidents and provide annual...
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Generative AI: Balancing Innovation and Privacy Concerns 🤖💡
Generative Artificial Intelligence is a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on the data they...
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Mitigate All Types of IP Theft with Information Governance
In July of 2006, Federal agents arrested and charged a Coca-Cola Company employee and two others with stealing trade secrets and wire...
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How Organizations Can Improve Their Ethical Handling of Data
Reflecting the old maxim of what you don’t know can, in fact, hurt you, organizations must invest in information governance education and...
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Cyberattack at Aliquippa Water Authority
The small Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania, with minimal cybersecurity measures, fell victim to an international...
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Data Breach and Human Error
Let’s start this morning with a few fun facts about everyone’s favorite risk topics…data breach and human error… Then, let’s add in...
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UK Press: WhatsApp Group Where Patient Data Was Entered On More Than 500 Occasions Between April 2020 And April 2022
UK press reported that between April 2020 and April 2022, 26 staff at a local UK National Health Service facility in Larnakshire had...
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How Information Governance Helps Credit Unions Prevent Against Cyber-attacks
Escalating cyber threats require credit unions to improve and constantly update their governance of secure sensitive member data,...
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How a Vital Records Program and Employee Records Management Training Can Help Companies Avoid Data Breach
This past week has seen several announcements of major data breaches.