Protect Your Information
In the era of “Big Data,” the raw amount of data collected has risen exponentially. Across your enterprise, employees are collecting and saving unstructured data at an ever-increasing rate. When you “save everything” without an information governance architecture in place, you lose control of what you have and where you have it. This global information chaos exposes you to a cascade of risks and increased costs: wasted search time, ballooning storage expense, underutilization of valuable data, and worst of all, unauthorized access to confidential information. Let Lincoln Discovery develop and implement a robust and sustainable information governance architecture that ensures legal compliance, maintains appropriate document security, minimizes exposure to risk, and maximizes the business value of your information assets.
Policies
Establishing best practices for information governance does not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Lincoln Discovery uses a risk-centric strategy to prioritize enterprise policy goals based on the specific legal, regulatory, and market landscape of your firm. To do this, we identify and evaluate four main areas: key constituencies, existing information structures, potential data value, and the requirements for data security, legal compliance, and litigation response. Based on this information, we draft a custom framework that will guide your enterprise-wide strategy to maximize the value and minimize the risk of your data assets.
Procedures
Once your policy framework is in place Lincoln Discovery establishes the specific step-by-step actions that are needed to carry out your information management goals. These procedures ensure that each new bit of data collected or generated is properly tagged and stored in the right place with the right level of security without fail. Procedures also include data retention/deletion schedules based on the legal hold requirements of your enterprise. Never again will you be in the dark about where your risk or potential value is hidden. The consistency and fine detail of best-practice procedures turn data confusion into clarity, liability into advantage.
People
Lincoln Discovery understands that the implementation of a successful information governance system is not possible without the “people piece”. Because every company has a unique structure, it is important to tailor the data management strategy to its specific business units. We will work with stakeholders to ensure that the interaction between disparate company teams coordinate to work together towards the information policy goals. By identifying the crucial roles of who has ownership and and accountability within those groups, you will establish a system that is both effective and sustainable over the long term.
Technology
Maintaining a systematic approach to classifying, retaining and discovering the sea of data your company collects and produces requires the proper storage, network, encryption, and AI technology. Lincoln Discovery prides itself on keeping up top of the latest technological advances that facilitate the most effective information governance strategies. Of course, keeping your information safeguarded from unauthorized access is of paramount importance. Equally important is your ability to access the exact data you need, when you need it. We provide content- and context-aware tools to analyze and quickly find data that is relevant to the critical task at hand: litigation discovery, legal compliance, or business value.