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Reduce E-Discovery Costs with Data Minimization Services from Global EDD Group

October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

New Services Enables 30 – 50 Percent Reduction of Data Volumes and Processing Fees

Data Collection projects undertaken by teams of corporate, legal and consultant staff often results in large volumes of data that is not relevent to a given case, can not easily be processed (databases, music, video) or is a known file from the host operating system.  While it is often beneficial to preserve this data for future reference, it can become incredibly costly and burdensome to manage, process or review these files during a case.Rather than simply forward these files downstream for expensive processing and eventual exclusion, Global EDD Group will apply an automated filtering system that intelligently excludes files based on type, owner, date, source and hash value and creates a report for future reference.  The culled subset of data is often 30 to 50 percent smaller and provides an immediately savings to the end client via reduced processing, hosting and review costs.

Data Minimization Features:

◊  DeDuplicate
◊  DeNIST
◊  Date Range Filter
◊  File Type Filter
◊  Large File Filter
◊  Available at collection point, at our processing centers or your office

Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Data Minimization Services from Global EDD Group should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282) or email info@globaledd.com for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with a regional office in Singapore, SG, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visiting http://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .

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Sony’s Security Problems Could Take Years to Fix – NYTimes.com

June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s been a tough couple of months for Sony. The company’s PlayStation Network was breached by hackers in late April and now several other units of the company have suffered broad security breaches.

In the last week alone, half a dozen Sony Web sites and servers, including some in the United States and Brazil, have been breached. On Monday a group of hackers calling themselves LulzSec posted proprietary Sony source code on file-sharing Web sites.

Although the members of LulzSec have gone after other organizations in the past, including Fox.com and PBS.org, the attacks against Sony have been unrelenting.

“These attacks are a combination of Sony’s lax security and a number of groups being very vigilant about breaking in to show how powerful they can be,” explained Frank Kenney, vice president of global security at Ipswitch, a company used to securely transfer files online. “What Sony has to do is re-examine their entire security system including the type of code they are using and the type of servers; they have to acknowledge that their brand is at stake.”

Mr. Kenney said that no server was impervious to hackers, but a company like Sony, with millions of credit cards and users’ personal information on file, had a responsibility to ensure protection “equivalent to the Department of Homeland Security’s servers is in place.” He said that the fact that dozens of Sony Web sites and servers had been breached indicated it was clearly a companywide problem.

“Any type of environment can be breached, but Sony has to come up with a plan that not only protects their infrastructure, but also convinces their customers that their credit cards and personal information is safe,” Mr. Kenney said.

via Sony’s Security Problems Could Take Years to Fix – NYTimes.com.

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How to Fix (Or Kill) Web Data About You – NYTimes.com

April 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

s more of our social lives, shopping sprees and dating misadventures take place online, we leave behind, purposely or not, a growing supply of personal information.

Marketers, employers, suitors and even thieves and stalkers are piecing together mosaics of who we are. Even when it is accurate, it may not present a pretty picture.

For a glimpse of your mosaic, type your name into Spokeo.com. Prepare to see estimates of your age, home value, marital status, phone number and your home address, even a photo of your front door. Spokeo, one of several services like this online, will encourage you to pay $15 or more, for a full report with details on income, hobbies and online social networks.

Snoops who take the time to troll further online may also find in blog posts or Facebook comments evidence of your political views, health challenges, office tribulations and party indiscretions, any of which could hurt your chances of admission to school, getting or keeping a job or landing a date. Many privacy experts worry that companies will use this data against users, perhaps to deny insurance coverage or assign a higher interest rate on a loan.

The online aggregation of personal data is setting the stage for “a WikiLeaks for your life,” said Michael Fertik, the chief executive of Reputation.com, previously known as ReputationDefender, a company that charges to manage people’s online information and images. “The treasure trove of personal data about each of us is growing to unanticipated levels, and the leak of huge portions of those data can be personally devastating,” he said.

via How to Fix (Or Kill) Web Data About You – NYTimes.com.

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Using SharePoint to Enable Information Management within the Enterprise

October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Enterprise Metadata

The ability to tag content in your content management system is critical. Tagging content improves search and results, allows an employee to more easily find content through navigation and assists in overall content management. As organizations become more sophisticated in their treatment of content, managing metadata across the enterprise has become a critical service.

In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft improved metadata support. First, they’ve created a concept of a “content type hub.” Companies already using SharePoint 2007 know that Content Types carry a collection of metadata field used to describe the content, content template settings and workflow settings. In 2010, SharePoint gives you the ability to syndicate content types across multiple site collections (using the hub concept), ensuring that firms can consistently tag and managed content regardless of its location.

In addition to Content Type hubs, Microsoft introduced a new service for managing enterprise metadata. This service allows organizations to create a proper, hierarchical metadata schema and manage it centrally. The service then syndicates that schema to specific metadata fields across the SharePoint farm. One big opportunity presented with the service is that it could also be used as a part of a master data management service outside of SharePoint (though it was probably not a use case for the service when Microsoft created it).

via Using SharePoint to Enable Information Management within the Enterprise.

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Using SharePoint to Enable Information Management within the Enterprise

October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Enterprise Metadata

The ability to tag content in your content management system is critical. Tagging content improves search and results, allows an employee to more easily find content through navigation and assists in overall content management. As organizations become more sophisticated in their treatment of content, managing metadata across the enterprise has become a critical service.

In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft improved metadata support. First, they’ve created a concept of a “content type hub.” Companies already using SharePoint 2007 know that Content Types carry a collection of metadata field used to describe the content, content template settings and workflow settings. In 2010, SharePoint gives you the ability to syndicate content types across multiple site collections (using the hub concept), ensuring that firms can consistently tag and managed content regardless of its location.

In addition to Content Type hubs, Microsoft introduced a new service for managing enterprise metadata. This service allows organizations to create a proper, hierarchical metadata schema and manage it centrally. The service then syndicates that schema to specific metadata fields across the SharePoint farm. One big opportunity presented with the service is that it could also be used as a part of a master data management service outside of SharePoint (though it was probably not a use case for the service when Microsoft created it).

via Using SharePoint to Enable Information Management within the Enterprise.

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Google Integrates Google Instant Into Chrome 8 Address Bar, Any Use? | WWWery

October 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

One of the most noticeable changes in Chrome 8 is the integration of “Google Instant” search technology, right into the browser. Once you download Chrome 8 Dev release here and go to “about:labs” in the browser and enable “Instant,” there you go. Whatever you type, you have the results instantly. If the Instant recognizes a website URL the browser takes you to the website, if it recognizes a search phrase, then it takes you to the Google search results page which alters as you type in your search query. You would need to download and try it to understand it better.

Interestingly, the “Instant” feature also makes use of your browser history in fetching you the results or taking you straight to the website. For example, just to test, I cleared my browser’s history, then came straight to “wwwery.com” and closed the tab. (I must tell you, I had already enabled the ‘Instant’ feature in the labs). Now when I type in “W” into the URL/Address Bar the browser automatically takes me to my website. I haven’t done anything but that. No ENTER, nothing absolutely.

via Google Integrates Google Instant Into Chrome 8 Address Bar, Any Use? | WWWery.

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Google rolls out encrypted Web search option | InSecurity Complex – CNET News

May 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually.

People who want to use the more secure search option can type “https://www.google.com” into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results that Google displays, will be protected from interception.

The beta service of the secure Web search option begins in the United States on Friday and will be rolled out over the next few days to users around the world, said Murali Viswanathan, a Google search product manager.

Friday’s announcement makes Google the first major search engine to offer this privacy-protective feature. AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft currently do not.

via Google rolls out encrypted Web search option | InSecurity Complex – CNET News.

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Transliteration goes global

December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Most of us use a keyboard to enter text; it’s one of the most basic activities we perform on a computer. However even this simple activity can be cumbersome in many parts of the world. If you’ve ever tried to type in a non-Roman script using a Roman keyboard, you know that it can be difficult to do. Many of us at Google’s Bangalore office experienced this problem firsthand. Roman keyboards are the norm in India, making it difficult to type in Indian languages. We decided to tackle this problem by making it very easy to type phonetically using Roman characters and we launched this service as Google Transliteration.

Using Google Transliteration you can convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note that this is not the same as translation — it’s the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other.

via Official Google Blog: Transliteration goes global.

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