Biographical Information
Robert Smallwood
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Robert F. Smallwood is a partner with IMERGE Consulting and executive director of the E-Records Institute at electronic-records-management.com. He is the author of several books, including the upcoming Securing Documents in the Age of WikiLeaks, and may be reached at rsmallwood@imergeconsult.com.
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Articles By Robert Smallwood
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"Everyone now knows that even authorized users can go bad and misuse internal documents, or leave the organization and take them with them..."
"A firewall isn't enough. Data loss prevention isn't enough. You need enterprise rights management on top of that..."
Even software is going green these days...
U.S. hardware manufacturers have taken significant steps to improve their environmental standing. Those steps are not only playing well with consumers, but also are providing moneymaking opportunities for the vendors through cost reduction and new revenue streams.
The gaping hole in security schemes for enterprise content management (ECM) systems is that few, protections exist once the information is legitimately accessed. That confidential information, which might include price lists, legal documents, patented designs, blueprints and reports, can often be printed, e-mailed or faxed to unauthorized parties without any security attached.
Various studies show that up to three-quarters of corporate intellectual property resides within e-mail...
Just when knowledge workers thought IT might be getting a handle on managing burgeoning e-mail, instant messaging (IM) and other content, the goal line keeps moving. There is not only an ever-expanding amount of content, but also it is coming from a greater variety of sources, and new requirements for capture and classification of live content are arising from regulation, litigation and governance demands.
Part one of this article (KMWorld July/August 2006) covered key trends and some leading firms in the intelligent data capture (IDC) marketplace...
The first part of this article, which appeared in KMWorld last month, described how such trends as growing e-mail volumes and increased regulatory and legal pressures have transformed the e-mail management marketplace from niche to core component in organizations today. This month we’ll review additional leading players in the booming marketplace.
E-mail management (EMM) is hot. Growing e-mail volumes, increased regulatory and legal pressures and concerns about electronic records make managing e-mail a top priority for many organizations. And with a dynamic, healthy marketplace exhibiting a flurry of new entrants and consolidations, the competition is fierce in the e-mail management and archiving marketplace.