Legal Technology

Data breaches mean more than bad publicity

In addition to the bad publicity and regulatory scrutiny that follow data breaches, corporations also face costly civil litigation. As the legal landscape grows more and more digital, law firms should brace companies for when the almost inevitable data breach occurs.

If you can find it ...

you can do something with it. Such is the philosophy of search as applied to the compliance industry. Both Recommind and now Autonomy are catering to the compliance office and offering up their search technology to automatically apply content policies and litigation holds.

Authomy recently announced its Autonomy Information Governance, a new product that automates content policy management for IT, legal, and any groups responsible for complying with such things as document litigation holds and retention policies. Autonomy uses its search technology to connect to content stores and automatically apply policy to content based on its IDOL understanding of what constitutes a content type, such as e-mail, document, or phone record, rather than simply applying policy based solely on metadata.

Autonomy includes numerous out-of-the-box data repository connectors that allows the retrieval and policy management of e-mail, documents, audio/video files, etc. across the entire enterprise.