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In a time of increasing budget cuts, how can we possibly implement an information governance initiative and address the looming GDPR requirements? One of the most critical factors in tackling both of these spendy initiatives is an understanding of what data you have and where it is maintained. At first blush, organizations might look to […]

Kon Leong, CEO and founder of ZL Technologies, said companies should take steps to protect themselves from similar breaches. “Apart from best practices for password security, such as frequently prompting users to change passwords and never storing raw password data, there are a few things companies with user data should consider,” Leong said. “For instance, […]

ZL Technologies is a provider of big data management solutions that help its corporate customers better perform tasks like eDiscovery, compliance, records management and analytics. From his vantage point as ZL’s CEO, Kon Leong has offered up several compelling predictions for new directions that the information technology industry will take in 2017. To read the […]

The U.K.’s forthcoming departure from the European Union has exposed the instability faced by multinational data management initiatives during an era of evolving privacy legislation. Brexit has regulatory implications for multinational companies with locations in the U.K. and companies that wish to host non-U.K. data in the U.K. In fact, its outcome could send shock […]

Financial institutions have been slow to adopt the cloud. However, with more regulations, compliance, and better security features in the cloud, more of these companies will no longer be able to ignore its benefits, will start testing the cloud on workloads and move some services beyond just the corporate data center. More businesses will allow […]

Kon Leong, CEO, ZL Technologies While migration to the cloud will maintain momentum, some cloud business will start drifting back to, and get anchored on, the ground, while others will evince hybrid qualities between “Heaven” and “Earth.” This movement will be especially pronounced in the large enterprise applications space. Reasons include: Economics. Beyond a certain […]

Many global organizations face a daunting challenge in complying with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the EU’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), given the two regulations’ directives on how citizens’ data is to be stored, processed and accessed. In an effort to make compliance easier, however, legal technology providers are innovating solutions that bring […]

The explosion of internet-connected devices, known to most as the Internet of Things, has led to an exponential growth in volume of data. Everyday devices are now capable of transmitting magnitudes of information from one device to another, the entirety of which shares one common characteristic: it reflects human behaviour. Moving forward, enterprises that are […]

Industry experts used to massive email searches in large civil cases have been scathing about the idea that the FBI’s job is difficult with modern tools. Linda Sharp of ZL Technologies said: “In the scheme of e-discovery, 60,000 documents is nothing. We’re used to seeing documents in the tens of millions of documents, terabytes of […]

Today’s IT leaders are facing a world of unknowns and underlying fears on a daily basis – from the ransomware that could take down their organizations, to the emergence of new digital disruptors that could render their business obsolete, to the absence of quality IT talent they need to stay ahead of these and other […]

The recent arrest of National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin for the removal of classified material and theft of government property has reaffirmed the vulnerability of federal organizations to the insider threat. Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly fear security breaches at the hands of cyber activists and state-sponsored entities, yet quite often the more […]

I’m often asked in which area of business I expect analytics to make the biggest strides in the near future, and my answer is pretty simple, although perhaps counterintuitive: it will be within the workplace itself. Endless resources are spent on gathering consumer data — and rightfully so — yet to many companies, the dynamics […]