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How to Understand and Protect the Data in Your Enterprise
In a recent study conducted by Acaveo and Osterman Research it was revealed that of more than 100 responding enterprises with a median 20 TB of unstructured data stored, only 37% regularly audited the amount of data that employees or business units produce. See, “Survey: 50% of IT Teams Not Ready for Unstructured Data Growth.” Especially in a time where cybersecurity remains in the headlines on a regular basis, it's crucial to understand what data exists in order to protect it. Where's your data? What if you lost track of some of it? What if attackers copied it?
We don't use filing cabinets much these days to run our businesses, nor big ledger books to record our accounts. We now put all the information we need to run our businesses into databases and other computer-based filing systems.
However, with data so easily stored, more responsibility falls on an enterprise to know where and what it is. Since access to the data and maintaining its integrity is critical to the continuity of your business, ensuring that it is safe is essential. Understanding what's in the fort of information surrounding an enterprise is the first step towards that peace of mind, and there are tools that can help track the current and future state of a company's data.
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Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?