The Guide to Risk Management in the Digital World
The Guide to Risk Management in the Digital World offers a strategy to confront the current legal climate surrounding the preservation and disclosure of significant documents. We stress the importance of a team effort in order to establish an effective data retention policy. We also examine some critical questions while offering a checklist and sample plan to get you started.
Building an effective data retention policy
The destruction of e-mails and other "documents" in high profile litigation throughout the country in the past several years is a warning to all of us. The revolution in the way information is created, processed, and maintained in the modern, digital world has added a whole new layer of risk to the operation of any business, and especially for accounting firms. This risk, however, can be managed. As always, an "ounce of prevention" will prevent a "pound of cure."
