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According to the Pew Research Institute, Americans have expressed a "deep lack of faith" in organizations when it comes to protecting consumer privacy information such as social security numbers, home addresses and credit card numbers. With data loss incidents and security breaches doubling in the last two years, people aren't wrong to distrust that the companies who collect and store their privacy information can do so securely. Organizations also have reasons other than rap

An information governance program enables an organization to mitigate risk, achieve business objectives, comply with regulatory requirements, and reduce costs associated with regulatory penalties, storage and lost productivity. A key step to effectively governing your information assets such as contracts, investor contact information, customer credit card information, and employee benefit records is to establish policies and guidelines that clearly define for employees how to

Now, more than ever, it's important to add information to your organization's portfolio of assets. And more importantly, to manage your information like any other asset. Why now? According to IBM Marketing Cloud's recent report, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data (roughly 2,500,000 terabytes) are generated every day, and 90% of existing data was created in the last few years. These are staggering statistics - and they bring up a host of obstacles and issues for companies to tackle

Addressing information risk in the digital age is complex. Records can be kept almost anywhere - employees may be storing important data on flash drives and personal devices, uploading to cloud storage sites or other digital repositories, or emailing it to their personal accounts to work on from home. Your organization most likely stores records in a multitude of formats - maybe older data on microfiche, paper copies in various locations, and electronic data on everything fro