Legal Obligations Create Burden and Risk in IT Environment

Global companies face a myriad of laws that dictate how they handle information, specifically how long htey must retain information, when they must preserve it as evidence, what uses are permissible while in their possesion, and how and under what conditions it may be transported.  Unfortunately, while the legal staff has legal and professional obligations under the law for a broad array of information, they do not have custody or control of that information - this is the domain of corporate information technology management (IT) organizaitons.

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