Category Archives: Defensible deletion

Interview with SullivanStrickler: Unstructured data – tape, vaulting, privacy and discovery

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Chris Dale

This is the first part of an extended interview which I did with Brendan Sullivan, CEO of archiving specialist SullivanStrickler and Fred Moore, President of Horison Information Strategies, Inc. SullivanStrickler’s tagline is “Providing access to the world’s legacy data”. Over the … Continue reading →

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FTI Consulting and the increasing cross-over between information governance, privacy and security

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Chris Dale

In the beginning was eDiscovery and, alongside it, the barely-regarded business of records management. EDiscovery brought obvious risk – of losing a case or, in the US, of being sanctioned for non-compliance with a court rule. Records management appeared to … Continue reading →

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A broad agenda at the Nuix Insider Conference in London on 4 April

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Chris Dale

The Nuix Insider Conference is a one-day event in London covering all aspects of working with data, including forensic investigations, eDiscovery, incident response, and governance. This year it takes place on 4 April at County Hall by Westminster Bridge. The … Continue reading →

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FTI Consulting: flexibility and documentation are the keys to GDPR readiness

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Chris Dale

FTI Consulting has been offering information governance services since before the General Data Protection Regulation was a twinkle in the eye of the EU. It was among the first of the major players to draw attention to the fact that … Continue reading →

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ACEDS London panel – get a DPO and do some IG before the ICO enforces the GDPR against YOU

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Chris Dale

Last year I moderated the panel which launched the ACEDS UK Chapter. Our subject was predictive coding, and the combination of the subject-matter and the organising skill of the ACEDS UK committee got us a large audience by London standards. … Continue reading →

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Guidance Software Data Risk and Privacy Survey results

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Chris Dale

Guidance Software undertakes a survey each year on some aspect of data management or data risk. This year, and unsurprisingly, the survey is about data risk and privacy, with the subtitle How concerned are organisations with data risk? The survey results, … Continue reading →

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Information Governance – what it is and why we need it

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Chris Dale

ZyLAB and the Information Governance Initiative join forces to spread some light about Information Governance in an on-demand webinar. The Information Governance Initiative is a cross-disciplinary think-tank and consortium dedicated to advancing information governance practices and technologies. It is supported by many … Continue reading →

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Launch of the Information Governance Initiative

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Chris Dale

The most interesting topic of discussion at LegalTech 2014 was not some new technology nor the proposed revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but the launch of the Information Governance Initiative. That is certainly not to dismiss the … Continue reading →

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Jason Baron joins the Drinker Biddle information governance and eDiscovery team

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Chris Dale

It is not often that I pay much attention to deadlines and embargoes. If the story won’t matter in a month’s time then it is not worth writing about now. Equally, I have not hitherto written much about what goes on within … Continue reading →

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