Dodd-Frank Act Drives Need for Information Governance

In a recent article in Information Management Magazine, Dodd-Frank Act Puts Focus on Information Governance, authors Fred Pulzello, and Sonali Bhavsar suggest that the regulations stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (Dodd-Frank) should prompt financial organizations to change the way they look at information governance.

What does this mean for financial organizations? Since Dodd-Frank increases the focus on comprehensive recordkeeping as well as establishing robust compliance practices, organizations should examine their current business and data governance practices to make sure that they are in compliance.

As Dodd-Frank is implemented, financial organizations should ask themselves:

• Do we have the systems capabilities in place to identify, track and preserve the required records?
• Is now a good time to perform a holistic data assessment of the information and records our firm currently has stored across all data repositories, content management systems and archives?
• Are we able to implement defensible data deletion policies as prescribed by the new Dodd-Frank requirements?
• Can our current data storage and archiving capabilities withstand the volumes for day-to-day reporting and historical archiving? If not, how can we strategically clean up our data storage?
• Will new technologies be needed to assist, and what does the implementation timetable look like to be in compliance?

Here at StoredIQ, we believe that establishing an actionable information governance plan will help financial organizations comply with these new stringent requirements for record keeping and reporting.  Taking a proactive approach to information management will help financial organizations to reduce risk, preempt litigation and avoid fines by identifying and securing documents as required by law.  Also, it will ensure that valuable business information is safe and accessible to authorized personnel only, according to regulatory compliance requirements and corporate access policies.

To learn more about how StoredIQ’s actionable information governance solutions can help you manage your data to meet Dodd-Frank requirements, contact us today at info@storediq.com or visit www.StoredIQ.com.

Put Big Data on a Diet with Defensible Data Deletion from StoredIQ

Make 2012 the year you get your corporate data in shape! Intelligently reduce “Big Data” for more effective and efficient eDiscovery and information governance.

StoredIQ’s new service offering for defensibly reducing enterprise data is designed to ease the burden of identifying, analyzing and collecting matter-relevant information. The StoredIQ Defensible Data Deletion solution utilizes the StoredIQ Platform to help organizations gain insight into business-critical information distributed across the enterprise. By applying intelligence to the governance of Big Data, organizations can reduce the overall corporate data volume by up to 80%, significantly improving the efficiency and success of their eDiscovery initiatives while reducing legal cost and risk.

Explosive growth from unstructured data continues to impede the legal discovery process. According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey, 69% of corporate counsel indicated that working more closely with IT and records management to expire and delete data to limit unnecessary data retention for future litigation requests was the most important priority facing their internal eDiscovery process. Legal and compliance issues typically trigger urgent IT and legal triage, but putting out these fires reactively doesn’t solve the larger problem of poor data governance– often the source of significant costs for large eDiscovery data productions. Minimizing long-term cost and risk requires proactive solutions to reduce irrelevant or “junk” data, and better understand where responsive, regulated or litigious data may be located.

“Defensibly deleting non-business data minimizes future productions for legal and regulatory requests, including the often significant eDiscovery labor and costs for identification, collection, processing, and costly downstream attorney review. Whether during the immediate eDiscovery response or as part of an initial plan for better proactive preparation and ongoing compliance, StoredIQ can offer corporations immediate cost savings and ongoing risk avoidance.” – Katey Wood, Enterprise Strategy Group

StoredIQ Defensible Data Deletion – Key Phases

Phase 1 – Identify: Find data at a granular level; understand its current and potential business value across your enterprise including within: Content and Records Management Systems, Email, SharePoint, Desktops/Laptops, and Archives.

Phase 2 – Manage: Classify data according to retention and disposition policies, and compliance mandates including: PII, PCI, FINRA, Dodd-Frank, Legal hold, Aged /obsolete data, and Non-business data.

Phase 3 – Act: Manually or automatically take corrective action to: Protect, Delete, Expire, Migrate, Store, and Optimize data.

To learn more about StoredIQ’s Defensible Data Deletion solution, stop by the StoredIQ booth at LegalTech — #214 — download the Defensible Data Deletion solution sheet, or email us at info@storediq.com.

New Whitepaper: Actionable Information Governance – Gaining Immediate Value and ROI from Enterprise Data

The growing volume and greater dispersion of data, new methods of collaboration, and the emergence of new internet-based applications pose their own challenges to finding and utilizing information most effectively. Combined with legal, regulatory, and privacy directives, data governance has become an increasing challenge for enterprise organizations. A new white paper from Enterprise Strategy Group addresses how corporations can turn Information Governance from a priority into reality.

Take action. Start governing.

This paper addresses some of the most common use cases for deploying information governance solutions including: eDiscovery, Compliance, Storage Optimization, Data Mapping, and Data Migration—focusing on the immediate ROI and long-term impact. Download the ESG whitepaper and take a step toward actionable information governance:

• Determine what data you have and where it is
• Clean-up trash and de-duplicate data
• Analyze contents and access patterns to determine appropriate policy
• Migrate data to the appropriate storage tier for greater cost efficiency
• Enforce policy for retention and deletion, potentially expiring what’s beyond usefulness or mandated compliance retention

‘Boil-the-ocean’ approaches stall many information management projects. Companies can gain more immediate near-term benefit and ROI by tying actionable information governance to other high-priority large-scale IT initiatives. Tackling an immediate and acute project like eDiscovery or regulatory response, storage optimization, or records management initialization can be an opportunity for ‘go-forward clean-up’ by adding elements of good information governance and better data management.

– Katey Wood, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group

The ESG whitepaper is available from the StoredIQ website at www.info.storediq.com/esg

For information about how StoredIQ can provide actionable information governance solutions for eDiscovery, records management, compliance, and storage optimization, email info@storediq.com.