Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise

11.10. An Information Government Framework

As IT organizations introduce new technologies, it's essential that they do so within the framework of IG. Consider, for example, the introduction of social media to engage in social networking discussions and information sharing through blogs, podcasts, videos, wikis, message boards, and online forums. What are the implications of employees engaging in social networking during business hours, using company equipment, and saving those communications on the organization's storage devices and backup media? What are the discovery obligations? How do you plan to capture the associated files and make them full-text searchable in the event of discovery? These questions should be answered before a technology ...