If your organization thinks that it is prepared to survive an e-discovery request, perhaps those risk managers working on their business continuity and contingency plans should read more articles like the one we have chosen in this blog posting.

Mr. Craig Ball is a trial lawyer and computer forensics/EDD special master as well as a writer for the Law Technology News division of Law.com.   We are asking you to read his article on the subject of e-discovery because we believe it addresses several areas of the legal hold process that require more awareness than we have seen presented in previous stories about this topic.

Cloud computing has been in the news again for having an outage on Sept 1, 2009.   In an article by Christina Torode, a contributing writer for IT Knowledge Exchange, the issue of losing track or control of your organization’s data, when the cloud computing is not available remains a serious risk management question not yet answered.

All business continuity planners and risk managers responsible for information security and IT Service Management in every organization should be aware of this element of cloud computing risk.

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With so much emphasis on getting the IT department and its technology support of your organization up and running after a disaster or disruption incident, it is reassuring to see more articles being written about the importance of workplace continuity in business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Click here to read this article by Kim Skratsky, a contributing writer for the Date Center Journal.