With the explosion of mobile technology, records are now stored across platforms, including the cloud. This makes data security one of the main challenges. At the same time the amount of data is increasing, control over it is decreasing. To succeed, then, organizations must have a plan.

In this issue of Information Management, our authors address this need for vigilance when it comes to mobile technology.

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IM May-June 2012

  • IM May-June 2012

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  • GARP® Series: IT's Most Important Role: Ensuring Information Integrity

    (PDF) Compromise comes into play in the this article by Patrick Cunningham, CRM, CIP, FAI. His article describes how to ensure that there are no compromises when it comes to IT systems. A compromise of administrative accounts, he writes, can allow unauthorized accounts and unauthorized access to accounts, so these must be regularly audited.

  • RIM Fundamentals Series: Future Watch: Strategies for Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Records

    (PDF) Gordon E.J. Hoke, CRM, addresses how organizations are facing an ever-increasing challenge to maintain long-term accessibility to the growing volume of electronic records. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, he writes in the RIM Fundamentals article; it requires a unique combination of tools, policies, procedures, and compromise.

  • Drawing a Blueprint for a Scalable Taxonomy

    (PDF) To ensure effective information governance, implementing a scalable taxonomy is important, states Eugene Stakhov. The core concept of taxonomy is the same across disciplines: in the same way that a child subclass inherits characteristics from a parent class in a biological taxonomy, document characteristics, including metadata, security, and, in some cases, retention requirements, are inherited in a content taxonomy. So, a good taxonomy makes identifying where documents belong easier.

  • Tech Trends: Smartphone Technologies Shine Spotlight on Information Governance

    (PDF) “Ready or not, the use of smartphones has thrust RIM onto a new playing field, where a radical change in game plan is mandated, but the playbook is still incomplete,” writes Nancy Dupre Barnes, Ph.D., CRM, CA, and Frederick Barnes, J.D, in “Smartphone Technologies Shine Spotlight on Information Governance.”

  • In Review: Effective Information Governance Is Power

    (PDF) Deborah H. Juhnke, CRM, reviews a book on finding hidden ROI in information. The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Finding the Hidden ROI in Information Assets  (ROI Commentary) offers an option value approach to information governance, which recognizes “the long-term strategic value of using and repurposing” information assets “in new and additional ways.”

  • In Review: High-Level Blueprint for Private Sector Information Governance Programs

    (PDF) Lee Nemchek, CRM, reviews the book Managing Records in Global Financial Markets. She concludes it is a must-have resource for experienced finance industry professionals working to advance their RIM/information governance programs to full maturity.

  • Up Front

    (PDF) News, trends and analysis.