11.1. Information Governance Basics
Every day, companies must safeguard and precisely catalog millions of bits of data that encompass their corporate memory, their intellectual property, their corporate records, and the flow of information that is crucial for business operations—and is the organization's life blood. They must not only keep such data safe from hackers and crooks, but also enable executives to quickly find critical information within that data when a regulatory agency, accountant, lawyer, or business need demands it.
Information can include anything that an organization has compiled or its employees know. It can be stored and communicated. It covers a wide variety of data including customer information, proprietary information, ...
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