News Archive: September 2007

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THE SCOOP for September 26, 2007

New threats to privacy
Government Computer News - September 17, 2007
"As a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of Kevin Bankston's primary responsibilities is to monitor the effects of new technologies on citizens' privacy rights and occasionally undertake litigation to protect those rights."
No Nonsense Disaster Recovery Planning
CIO Insight - September 17, 2007
"Just a few years ago, disaster recovery was a technology problem; now, it's a business problem. Disaster recovery is changing as rapidly as business is changing."
Planners describe disaster strategies
Federal Computer Week - September 24, 2007
"A misconfigured firewall that malfunctioned during a federal disaster preparedness exercise in April showed how tenuous disaster preparation can be."
Transit NZ fights 'organisational Alzheimer's' with ECM
Computerworld (New Zealand) - September 14, 2007
"Forget increased efficiency and never mind the prospect of saving ten working days per employee per year -- it was the prospect of 'organisational Alzheimer's' that galvanised Transit New Zealand's senior management into approving an enterprise-wide content management system...."
White House E-Mails Still Missing
eWeek - September 20, 2007
"The Bush administration may be running out the clock in its efforts to resist a congressional inquiry and two lawsuits seeking the whereabouts and contents of more than 5 million missing White House e-mails, according to one of the organizations that has filed a suit."

THE SCOOP for September 19, 2007

Defense IG: We're Our Worst Enemy
Government Executive - September 17, 2007
"Investigations ... repeatedly found problems with system access control, safeguarding of privacy information, poor security policy and procedures, training and education, according to the latest IG report...."
Hacking into e-health records is too easy, group says
Federal Computer Week - September 17, 2007
"Hackers can access many e-health records and modify them unbeknownst to the software's legitimate users, according to a new study by an organization concerned about EHR [electronic health records] vulnerabilities."
Records Management Quality
AIIM E-DOC - September 2007
"It's all very well having a great records management system with a well-defined policy where everyone understands their roles, but the old adage of garbage in, garbage out still applies."
Taming the World of Unstructured Data
DM Review - September 2007
"Without the ability to automate the indexing, storage and handling of unstructured data, there is simply no effective way to keep track of it. Three case studies highlight the role of search and categorization to solve specific business issues."

THE SCOOP for September 12, 2007

CIOs must focus on e-discovery, NASCIO says
Washington Technology - September 11, 2007
"E-discovery is an important issue for both the public and private sectors as more critical business information is moved into electronic form, NASCIO [National Association of State Chief Information Officers] said, adding that the successful location and retrieval of electronic information can be critical to the outcome of a lawsuit."
E-discovery requires advanced e-mail systems
InfoStor Europe - September 2007
"Over the last two years, a large number of organisations have failed to produce electronic evidence in a timely manner, resulting in multi-million-pound fines and negative press coverage. With the increasing levels of regulation around e-discovery, organisations must be more proactive about how to archive, retrieve, and produce e-mails and related content in the event of a request from regulatory or government bodies."
Homeland Security Privacy Challenges Remain
The Conservative Voice - August 18, 2007
"The DHS Privacy Office has made significant progress in carrying out its statutory responsibilities under the Homeland Security Act and its related role in ensuring compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974 and E-Government Act of 2002, but more work remains to be accomplished."
Pfizer Shares Successful Implementation of Electronic Lab Notebooks
Life-Science Panorama - September 11, 2007
"The transition to electronic lab notebooks (eLN) has been a dream for many years. The benefits of eLN are clear, a reduction of paper, savings in records management, easier access to stored information, and generally, less record-keeping time for scientists."
Unstructured Data: Attacking a Myth
Enterprise Systems - September 5, 2007
"While business intelligence (BI) search may not radically change how users work, there is a clear and growing sense in which search--especially when tapped as a complement to existing BI and performance management (PM) infrastructure investments--will make a decisive difference."
USPTO builds a better e-filing mousetrap
Government Computer News - September 10, 2007
"Every time the paralegal left the office, according to a story common in patent circles, the young lawyer in a Chicago intellectual-property law firm was seized by panic attacks, terror-stricken at the thought of facing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's electronic-filing system-- alone."
White House facing lawsuit over millions of 'missing' e-mails
Jurist Legal News & Research - September 6, 2007
"The National Security Archive filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Executive Office of the President and other presidential affiliates to compel recovery of 5 million electronic messages that apparently went missing from White House computers between March 2003 and October 2005."

THE SCOOP for September 6, 2007

DOD will share e-medical records with FDA
Federal Computer Week - August 24, 2007
"The Defense Department will share at least some of its electronic medical records for 9.1 million military personnel and their families with the Food and Drug Administration to help FDA spot problems and learn more about the efficacy of prescription drugs."
Look beyond legal discovery when designing e-mail archives, urge experts
Computerworld - August 24, 2007
"[E]ven as enterprises scramble to find those lost tapes and create a real archive that will allow them to produce sets of historic e-mails if required, they should think beyond this purely defensive requirement to active use of the archived data."
Personal data: Up close and impersonal
Federal Computer Week - August 27, 2007
"Encrypted indexing techniques let security agencies exchange information more freely without sacrificing personal privacy."
Report: Align disparate security regs before imposing more
Federal Computer Week - August 24, 2007
"As Congress considers legislation to impose more data security requirements, the lawmakers should first figure out how to align existing regulations, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service."
SNIA survey spotlights archiving crisis
InfoStor - August 23, 2007
"According to a recent SNIA survey of archive practitioners, long-term data-retention technologies and practices are not up to snuff, and digital information is in serious jeopardy of being lost over time."
Wanted: Full Enterprise Search
TechNewsWorld - August 26, 2007
"Most of the information you need is hiding -- but where? In unstructured data and on the deep Web."

News Archive: September 2007

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