To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 6/10/2020 As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Management Conference, government Records Management professionals will once again gather in June to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, appli...

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Operating on the Internet creates a cyber threat to healthcare entities that need to protect data, healthcare records, and transactions. Those who use the Internet "unprotected" are vulnerable to adversaries through exposed IP addresses, network identity, and geo-location. NetAbstraction's cloud-based solution alters your public online identity and disguises your network connectivity to ensure protection. By dynamically varying your pathways t...

Records Management University Class 5: Legacy System Data Transactions, Formatting & Public Access March 24, 2020 Although we have record schedules and file plans for traditional content, do they cover what constitutes data transactions (big data) as records. “Big data” as a volume generator far surpasses content-based records. Formatting data generated from different transactional systems (accounting, manufacturing, HR) into a...

Records Management University Class 4: Multi-media Capture, Storage and Rendering In the age of video recording everything with cell phones and body cameras, what was once relegated to bulky cameras and recorders for high definition surveillance, and lengthy recordings stored (but rarely accessed), is now commonplace. From recording all random public activity, environmental interactions, and obscure activity that has potential evidentiary impa...

Records Management University Class 3: Tapping and Collecting Social Media Threads As more and more organizations utilize the recent technological advances in communications and transacting business via Social Media, managing individual and group dialoging has quickly surpassed the use of verbal interactions (phone), that in the past required warrants and notice to record. Since privacy in communications is almost all but dead (the rebound of...

Records Management University Class 2: Synching and Ingesting eContent (non-email) Face it, you will never know of all the content that exists in your organization’s networked servers and legacy applications. For an enterprise record management solution, it is guaranteed be a lot. Ingesting and categorizing that content is a monumental task given the typical lack of resources and user apathy for manual intervention. In this class we will...

Records Management University Class 1: Conquering the Email Avalanche Email continues to evolve as the go to electronic record in eDiscovery. The growth of emails during the last 20+ years has been enormous. Basically, it has become the voice of the individual. As such, it’s capture, management, categorization and access have become instrumental in the functioning of organizations of all sizes. Email’s value continues to grow and d...

Know with confidence which items of information to share and which items to keep confidential regarding the Freedom of Information Act. Government officials and employees are well aware that the public has the right to access government information, but it is not always clear what information must be made available and what information should be kept confidential. Additionally, it is not always clear to members of government or the general pub...

Blockchain in Government Training Workshop IV: Understanding Blockchain – Putting the Pieces Together – Looking into the Future Blockchain growth and adoption has only continued to increase in the public sector. The first three Potomac Forum Blockchain Workshops were a great success. Students requested a follow up Workshop in a Blockchain series and this fourth Workshop will offer the most detail in putting your chain together! Co...