Guidance Software and featured guest speaker Vivian Tero of IDC discuss how organizations are managing their electronic data in response to the challenges of eDiscovery, records retention, and data loss prevention.

Ms. Tero dicusses IDC's latest research on corporate archiving, litigation readiness and response initiatives, and the convergence of data privacy with eDiscovery. These studies conclude that corporations should look beyond information management and retention initiatives if they are to mitigate potential challenges to their litigation hold practices and enforce their global privacy policies. In this session, Ms. Tero discusses findings on the organizational and business process maturity of organizations as well as their current and planned technology investments to facilitate corporate responses to a litigation event.

Following Ms. Tero, Guidance Software discusses the advantages of using court-validated technology to address the corporate challenges of litigation readiness and response initiatives, archiving, policy enforcement. They also look at the convergence of data privacy and eDiscovery with an eye toward mitigating potential challenges to litigation hold practices and enforcing global privacy policies.