E-discovery may be common in today’s legal world, but that certainly wasn’t always the case. This month’s history of cybersecurity looks back to how discovery technology was developed, and what it has to do with the Iran-Contra affair.

“With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyber-attacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember. Nervous System is a monthly series that approaches issues of data privacy and cybersecurity from the context of history—to look to the past for clues about how to interpret the present and prepare for the future.

In November 1986, an internal leak to the press exposed a secret United States operation to funnel the proceeds of weapons sold to the Islamic Republic of Iran (in violation of an arms embargo) to fund the revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua (in contravention of Congress). As the press started to cover the scandal, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North went to his computer at the National Security Council and started deleting emails pertaining to his role in the scheme. Over the course of a frantic weekend, he manually deleted around 750 emails.:

Click here to read the entire breakdown written by Davis Kalat for law.com.

“Digital asset management (DAM) is a business process for organizing, storing and retrieving rich media and managing digital rights and permissions. Rich media assets include photos, music, videos, animations, podcasts and other multimedia content.”

Join Jonathan Gourlay from TechTarget for a robust breakdown of what exactly DAM is and why it is so crucial to understand the strategy behind software that saves your organization time and money. Jonathan provides interesting use case examples to further inform your business approach.

“Use cases:

Anyone who needs to optimize digital asset workflows needs a digital asset management system. Marketers can grow their brands and increase brand consistency with a DAM system. Designers can use DAM to optimize their workflows by being able to quickly search for files and repurpose assets. Sales teams can have up-to-date materials and resources anytime and anywhere. Agencies can use DAM to keep all of their creative files organized, enabling for faster turnaround times. And distributors can optimize their delivery process”

Increasing adoption of health information management systems and electronic medical records systems, Growing needs to curtail healthcare costs as well as need to minimize the use of paper, and the need to increase clinical efficiency are key factors contributing to a high CAGR of medical document management during the forecast period.

According to the current analysis of Reports and Data, the global Medical Document Management market was valued at USD 334.5 Million in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 774.5 Million by the year 2026, at a CAGR of 10.4 %. The systems eliminate paper-based processes like record management in the health care sector. The system involves the database of patient’s information related to health in clinics and allows doctors and administrators to make well-informed choices in treatment for particular injury and hospitalization procedures. Using the document template utility, medical offices can plan and deploy customized solutions that enable them to customize to their needs. Text templates can be set up for patient information sheets, lab results, prescriptions, and any other type of text that may be looked-for. Each document template allows for several user-defined fields that can assist with indexing and searching. For example, a lab-result text template may consist of a patient id field, a date field, and a lab name field.

The Research Report conducted by GlobalBankingandFinance.com reports key players in the Medical Document Management Systems market are 3M Company, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, McKesson, Epis Corporation System, Athena Health, Cerner Corporation Siemens, Among others. They also report that the cloud-based system is “expected to witness lucrative growth during the forecast period 2019-2026 with a CAGR of 10.1% owing to the low-cost installation, implementation, and set up of these systems.”

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) is implementing a new Enterprise Document/Content Management (ECM) system. The new system will provide a standard, Department-wide approach to document management.

With the new systems put in place, delaware.gov has put together an effective overview/case study on past successes when it comes to ECM’s reducing requests and enhancing work days state wide. This new system allows for central storage and retrieval of documents and information. This system will connect with the DNREC website so these documents are publicly available anytime and anywhere. This is the future of Enterprise Document and Content Management!

Click this link to read delaware.gov’s entire report and see case studies of these systems implemented on past projects. Let us know what you think!

When data files must absolutely, positively remain forever unalterable, immutable storage technology is one affordable approach to consider.

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