Don't pay lawyers to sift through your junk files
Every company gets sued eventually. Or sues someone. Or has to go to court or hearings that look a lot like court to demonstrate they're being good citizens by keeping all the financial records in order required by Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and a host of other shorthand nicknames for anal-retention.
Compliance is eating up so much of the average IT security budget that security managers complain they can't buy gear they consider to be the minimum required to keep valuable bits inside the building from going outside without permission.
A big part of compliance is data collection, though. And a big part of data collection is efficiency, according to John Palumbo, senior litigation support manager for high-tech Boston-based law firm Foley Hoag, LLP.
Palumbo, whose job title boils down to a combination of chief records expert and CIO, has spent four years upgrading and automating the way Foley Hoag deals with the mountains of unstructured data the firm has to take in from clients for every case.
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Source: itworld.com
By: Kevin Fogarty
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