“It’s the out-of-the box stuff you guys do, going above and beyond to meet our needs, that makes our lives so much easier.” -Vu Doan, Vice President, Air Van Summary Air Van, a transportation and storage company, has been storing records for companies of all sizes in the Boise, Idaho area for many years. With…
How an organization handles data matters. While records management covers many tenets of data collection, one particular area deserves exploration–privacy: what is it? How is it different from confidentiality? And why does this distinction matter? While privacy and confidentiality may seem interchangeable, both terms refer to different points in the data lifecycle. Let’s start with…
“The customer support is just wonderful. We’re managing all of these records and all of these people, and we never have issues, because we have support. When we need help, it’s right there.” -Donald Campbell, Supervisor of Administrative Services at Dominion Energy Summary Consolidated Natural Gas, which later merged into Dominion Energy, has been using…
“I think what it really boiled down to, to put it simply, is that you guys really understand records management and you have always understood it at a level that could not be matched by any other product.” -Barbara Benson, University Records Officer at The University of Washington Summary The University of Washington has had…
Behind every business is data, and one of the core elements of a records management program is organizing this data so you can apply retention policies. But data comes in obvious and not-so-obvious forms. Records managers know an effective Records and Information Management (RIM) program must deal with a wide variety of information sources. These…
Why Prepare? The average total organizational cost of a data breach in the United States in 2015 was $6.8 million.[1] In 2016 alone, over 3,000 publicly disclosed data breaches have occurred so far, representing more than 2.2 billion compromised records.[2] In addition to the upfront expenses, the damage to an organization’s reputation and goodwill can…
For companies that operate in international jurisdictions, it is vital to stay up-to-date on legislative actions that affect data retention policies and compliance. This allows companies to make internal adjustments as necessary and to avoid costly sanctions and other harmful penalties for non-compliance. Here are just a few upcoming laws worth noting: European Union – General…
What if there was a storage medium capable of storing billions of gigabytes of data in the size of a sugar crystal, with the ability to securely preserve it for centuries without decay or data loss? How far-fetched does it seem to be able to shrink the same amount of information currently filling a big…