Published today is Barclay T. Blair’s brief podcast interview with SearchStorage.com about the role of the storage manager in information governance. The upshot: storage managers need to step up and play a bigger role. The audio isn’t the best but there is also a transcript on the site. Check it out here.
Barclay’s presentation from the Raytheon Oakley seminar is now available.
On February 10, 2010, Barclay will be a panelist at the InformationWeek virtual conference, “Modernizing IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance to Accelerate Flexibility and Visibility.”
Here is information on the session:
5:00 - 5:45: Panel Discussion - E-Discovery Drill Down: First hand insight on driving more efficiency, cost-value and priorities in electronic e-discovery initiatives.
Enterprises IT leaders who decided to adopt a “save everything” policy over the last few years are beginning to pay a heavy price in e-discovery cases. Federal courts have come down hard on companies that fail to properly archive information, putting a clear warning out that data retention policies need to actually work. Our panel will focus on establishing compliant-driven policies that prevent overloading or underloading information that may need to be retrieved in the future.
Speakers: Barclay T. Blair, noted author and head of Information Governance at Forensics Consulting; Brian W. Hill, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research; Tom Smith, E-Discovery expert and Lawyer, K&L Gates
Moderator: Brian Gillooly, Editor in Chief of Events, InformationWeek Business Technology Network
For more information and to register, click here.
Barclay will be speaking on “Complying with Information Retention Laws,” as part of the Raytheon Oakley Cyberstrategies Seminar on January 27, 2009 in Falls Church, VA.
For more information and to register, click here or contact Carolyn Ford, Raytheon Oakley at 801-735-7512.
The Sacramento Press covered the City of Sacramento eExpo that Barclay Blair spoke at on November 4th, 2009. Information on the event is here. The article can be found here.
Barclay T. Blair will be providing a keynote address at an “eExpo” event put on by the City of Sacramento for California state and local entities. The event will cover a number of topics related to digital government, and Barclay will be talking about Information Governance.
The event runs on November 4, 2009 from 10am - 3pm, and Mr. Blair speaks at noon. In addition, a recording of the digital signature webinar that Barclay did in October for AIIM will be played throughout the day. A PDF with details about the event is available here.
Barclay T. Blair was recently featured in the “Ask the Expert” section of Infonomics Magazine, answering questions about email management and retention. This article builds upon the AIIM webinar that Barclay presented on email management earlier this year.
Barclay T. Blair will be the featured speaker on a webinar presented by AIIM International at 2-3 pm ET, Wednesday, October 14th. The webinar will focus on business and compliance issues related to digital signatures. The full event description is below. Click here for more information and to register.
How many times has your electronic workflow suddenly reverted back to the 1950s once a signature is required?
Print the document. Walk over to the printer. Sign the document (hopefully, only your signature is required). Send it by courier. Receive it back. Scan it. Archive it. Restart the workflow.
Now imagine that a document requires multiple signatures by co-workers who may be in the field, on vacation, or in an office on the other side of the country. Over time, the stops and starts to your business process add up to lost time, lost productivity, and, most importantly, lost revenue.
Digital signatures allow your business processes to stay totally digital. Digital signatures work. They are legal. They establish chain of custody. They enable improved compliance. They can improve your productivity. They also complete the last mile in going paperless.
Join us for a discussion on how to add digital signatures to your enterprise content management infrastructure and learn:
Barclay T. Blair will be leading a GRC workshop at the 2009 Governance, Risk & Compliance Summit in Boston, MA on September 29, 2009. This event for senior GRC professionals will be held at the John Hancock Hotel & Conference Center. Barclay will be focusing on real-world best practices for developing governance policies and procedures.
More information about the event is available here.
Here is a quick quiz for you:
What is Microsoft’s best-selling server-based application of all time?
Exchange?
SQL Server?
IIS?
No, no, and no.
It’s SharePoint.
SharePoint has taken the information management world by, and according to the NY Times, the product is emerging as a very strategic one for Microsoft.
Practically every client we have talked to in the past 18 months is using, planning to use, or evaluating the use of SharePoint for some type of information or records management function. There is a combination of factors at work here:
We have guided many clients through some very large implementations of SharePoint. Our role is to help our clients make good information governance choices in configuration and deployment so that legal and compliance requirements are met. Typical issues include:
Recently, Barclay T. Blair, head of FCS IG, was honored to be invited to be a “SharePoint Guru” at SharePointGovernance.org, a portal for peer exchange of SharePoint info founded by Russ Edelman and sponsored by AIIM International. Check out the site - it is brand new but there is already some great content there.
FCS IG is a division of Forensics Consulting Solutions, LLC (FCS), a leading e-discovery consulting company with a global reach. In the course of providing e-discovery services, FCS witnesses the pain and cost of information mismanagement on a daily basis. We founded FCS IG to help our clients take control of their information environment before litigation or regulatory investigations begin.
The FCS Professional Services Group focuses on helping clients mange their information after litigation or an investigation has already commenced.
FCS IG helps clients before a lawsuit or investigation begins. We focus on helping the client manage their information better so when a lawsuit or investigation does begin, the client is better prepared to find and prepare the evidence that is required, thereby reducing the cost and pain of e-discovery.
However, our services also help clients outside of the e-discovery context by making information easier for employees to find and use it; getting rid of unnecessary information (thus reducing costs); and complying with federal and state laws and regulations.