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The California state government learned the hard way the repercussions of not acting swiftly to respond to, secure and disclose that employee personal data was comprised by a wide scale database hacking operation in April 2002. Fast forward, and their legislature is now the first in the country to pass a law to prevent the …
This interesting commentary reviews the requirement for documents management in the post-Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley Act corporate environment. Destroying corporate documents, via shredding or other “digital” means can be a criminal act, so increased attention is warranted to how internal documents are stored, shared and deleted.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a guidance detailing the procedures necessary for the transfer of email messages and attachments to the agency.
“‘Why Do We Need to Keep This in Print? It’s on the Web …’: a Review of Electronic Archiving Issues and Problems,” by Dorothy Warner.
According to this New York Times article, Dr. Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, has been testing a program to preserve digital documents so that they can be read decades into the future, despite the obvious obstacles of the evolution of hardware and software. A paper he wrote on the topic, …
NARA is facing the daunting task of archiving millions of electronic records for public access, many of which were created using formats that are now obsolete.
