Information assurance and the EDMS

Posted on November 19, 2008. Filed under: Business, Collaborative Business, Document management, Risk Management, Technology, document | Tags: cloud computing, collaborative document management, COR² Technology, Document management, Information Assurance, Risk Management, The COR |

What is in your Risk Management process to address Information Assurance? Do you know who is touching your documents? Who your employee’s are emailing these items too?

One of the most powerful tools of the EDMS is Information Assurance. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on Information Assurance:

“Information assurance (IA) is the practice of managing information-related risks. More specifically, IA practitioners seek to protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, and non-repudiation. These goals are relevant whether the information are in storage, processing, or transit, and whether threatened by malice or accident. In other words, IA is the process of ensuring that authorized users have access to authorized information at the authorized time”.

When looking into an EDMS, ask to see a demonstration on the information assurance abilities of the system.

Tomorrow…Security controls