Hopefully you ate all of your Thanksgiving holiday food and are ready to start your holiday shopping with a bang. Based on reports I read over the weekend, Black Friday was a great success for the brick and mortar stores in the US.
A lot of people started their shopping at midnight last Friday or got up to get in line for bargains at 4:00am. As for me, I slept in on Friday morning and spent a great day with my family and friends.
Today is Cyber Monday and I think it’s a little easier on the feet and constitution than Black Friday. I would rather go online and go after all the bargains, rather than waiting in line and fighting all the crazy people out there.
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The November 2011 issue of ENX Magazine features an article titled “Document, Data Security: Turning Risks Into Opportunities” written by Dave Anastasi, CEO of eDocument Sciences.
This is the first in a series of articles where Dave looks at how data and document security are paramount concerns for all organizations of any size. Whether you are a private or public company, a non-profit or government entity, securing your confidential and sensitive information is critical to your business. Without that, you lose trust and credibility with your suppliers, partners and customers. Without trust, your business may cease to exist.
Almost everyday you hear about data breaches that affect small and large organizations alike. It doesn’t matter if you are Sony, the US government or a local accountant. Losing critical information can have a devastating effect on your business. Addressing the problem puts you in the driver’s seat rather than worrying about who is next.
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and I was reflecting on some of the things I’m thankful for when doing business everyday. Of course I’m thankful for the great people I work with, my family for putting up with me and for all the customers that I can help. But I’m also thankful all the technology I use.
Sometimes using technology can be a real headache, especially when something doesn’t work and you have a deadline in 5 minutes. But most of the time, I’m amazed at how well things work. I remember the old days before using a computer, but I can’t think how we actually got things done.
We all use technology to work and play and a lot of it has made life easier. In many ways it’s given me more time to do what matters in my business. Here are a few people and things I’m thankful for that make business easier.
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I had a conversation with an attorney the other day and she was telling me how her law firm is getting Apple iPads for all the attorneys. She said there was a lot of resistance, at first, from her IT department. That’s been the case with many law firms, but improved productivity has won the day.
In fact, according to the 2011 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey, which examined the purchasing trends of law firms with 50+ Attorneys, 25% of respondents said that the iPad would be one of the major technology purchases over the next 12 months. 11% of firms had already purchased iPads for their attorneys and 55% reported providing IT support for employees who purchase and use their personal devices.
Many law firms and other businesses are concerned about leaking the most sensitive information in their business. As with many organizations, law firms use documents to store client and case materials. Some of them are in a case management system, but many are on people’s laptops, desktops, mobile devices and file servers. I asked the attorney what would happen if those documents got out of the company and into the hands of other law firms, the media or other businesses? She said it would be devastating. Letting her client correspondence, legal briefs and strategies out would ruin them. Their clients would lose all trust in them and it would most likely put them out of business.
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On November 17, 2011, Bill Blake, President & COO of eDocument Sciences, joins partners Fasoo and Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS) in jointly hosting a seminar on document security and document management. The event is at One Financial Center in Boston, Massachusetts and focuses on many of the issues related to document security and how to resolve them. The keynote speakers for the seminar are David Drab, who is a Cyber Security Expert and Former FBI Agent, and Bill Blake. Their focus is on security threats and the direction and need of document security.
Fasoo along with DocuWare and Drivve are presenting at breakout sessions. Fasoo is presenting on the topic “Protect, Control and Trace Your Sensitive Document with Fasoo E-DRM” and focusing on introducing current and new solutions for document security and management. Such new products include Fasoo MFP Shell, Fasoo Mobile Gateway, Fasoo Secure Screen, Fasoo Context-Sensitive DRM, and Fasoo Usage Tracer.
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