DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

May 15, 2014

DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of its DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide. In this Buyer’s Guide, DCIG weights, scores and ranks 29 SIEM appliances respectively from nine (9) different providers. Like all previous DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this Buyer’s Guide provides the critical information that all size organizations need when selecting a SIEM appliance to help provide visibility into their security posture by providing usable and actionable information.

Four Prerequisites for eDiscovery/Early Case Assessment Products

December 16, 2011

Companies who execute Information Governance plans are looking for eDiscovery products supporting Early Case Assessment (ECA). ECA is a combination of search, workflow management, information processing, and multilingual user interfaces. ECA requires a cohesive set of technology, business and data science stakeholders to select products.
ECA is powerful business process, but identifying ECA products is a beleaguering task. ECA mashes together eDiscovery and technology requirements. The “mashing of requirements” creates a broad matrix of products and functionality. Without question, eDiscovery has significantly evolved within the last few years.

Liability Insurance Drives Information Management Plans, not eDiscovery or Monetary Sanctions

November 4, 2011

On average most mid-sized companies are not bothering with Information Management as a means to mitigate e-discovery costs. That is a conclusion reached by comparing Symantec’s 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey announced in October 2011 with the research completed by King and Spalding, LLP for the Duke Law Journal December 2010.

Don’t hit the button: Hoarders love deduplication and compression.

September 23, 2011

Over the years big data has crept into the everyday life of systems administrators. Attempts to solve the big data problem in both block and file storage emerged as data management software. While data management software struggled to get a footing, deduplication and compression took off stunting data management software’s growth.
Deduplication and compression technologies have well known capabilities in both the storage and information disciplines. However, they differ in a significant way. These technologies do not ease the burden of information management.

Message Tagging Offers Means to Scale Email Management in Enterprise Environments

April 3, 2009

A recent virtual eDiscovery roundtable that I participated in highlighted the difficulties that companies are having in getting their arms around the proliferation of electronically stored information (ESI) in their organization. This is especially true when one considers the growth of social media and how it can negatively impact them going forward. One attorney participating in the roundtable even went so far to say that, “We have lost control in regards to blogs, wikis and newer forms of social media.” Thankfully the news is a little bit better in regards to the management of older, more mature forms of social media such as email but challenges still remain.

No Rewards for Proactively Detecting Illegal Activity Using eDiscovery Software; But is Presuming Guilt the Next Logical Step?

February 12, 2009

A recent DCIG blog entry called into question the value of Bear Stearns selection of Orchestria and its inability to detect the alleged illegal activities of two of its Asset Management portfolio managers. More specifically, it asked why Orchestria did not detect the illegal activities of these individuals and why Bear Stearns did not configure it to monitor for these activities in the first place. The blog posting prompted a comment and phone call from Alan Morley, one of the individuals formerly responsible for implementing and managing Orchestria at Bear Stearns and why monitoring, detecting and preventing this activity is not as easy as it sounds.

Redact-It Brings Secure Black Outs to Electronically Stored Documents

October 30, 2008

Before storing documents electronically gained acceptance in the enterprise, retrieving documents meant parsing file cabinets and retrieving paper forms. And when it came time to share that information with the public without revealing classified information, it usually meant copying the original document and then pulling out a black marker that was used to cross out sensitive information on the copy, followed by more copying until the underlying text could no longer be seen. So while in the last decade most companies have scrapped file cabinets in favor of document images, more companies keep the black marker handy than they would probably like to admit.

Disjointed Legal Counsel Seeking Help for Comprehensive Early Case Assessment

June 24, 2008

Enterprise and holistic investigation, as concepts and strategies, generate many questions, concerns and risks. Our investigator, legal and security community is made up of 50+ professionals. Our community helps develop working Investigation Playbooks to intersect pressing investigative issues. For example, our community collaborates with us to develop Investigation Playbooks to manage retention policy, business continuity and information security issues. Some of our community members includes KPMG, ARC Group NY and individuals, such as Steve Harper of Crucial Security and Randy Barr Chief Security Officer at WebEx.

Bringing eDiscovery inside the firewall, DiscoverReady’s eDiscovery vision

April 24, 2008

This is delivered by marrying efficient resources, high-speed review applications and proactive project and process management. We also use higher level strategies, such as our Dynamic Data Analysis™ (a blending of statistical, conceptual and legal analysis), to both identify relevant documents as quickly and cost-effectively as possible, and to simultaneously reduce the total amount of data required to be reviewed.

Category: Litigation Readiness

DCIG 2014-15 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

Four Prerequisites for eDiscovery/Early Case Assessment Products

Liability Insurance Drives Information Management Plans, not eDiscovery or Monetary Sanctions

Don’t hit the button: Hoarders love deduplication and compression.

Top 10 Most Read DCIG Blogs of 2009 Irrespective of Publication Date

Message Tagging Offers Means to Scale Email Management in Enterprise Environments

No Rewards for Proactively Detecting Illegal Activity Using eDiscovery Software; But is Presuming Guilt the Next Logical Step?

Redact-It Brings Secure Black Outs to Electronically Stored Documents

Disjointed Legal Counsel Seeking Help for Comprehensive Early Case Assessment

Bringing eDiscovery inside the firewall, DiscoverReady’s eDiscovery vision

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