As an organization develops, implements and improves its  business continuity and resilience strategies, more attention is being given to regulatory driven compliance requirements.

There is also a concern to be addressed over the current political environment and the shift in the compliance landscape and compliance enforcement for which organizations need to be prepared.

Such a scenario exists over the growing emphasis of compliance requirements focused on the field of e-discovery.

Legal firms are certainly seeing the same dynamics and as a result, a new legal organization officially was formed and called “The Organization of Legal Professionals.”   The goal of this new group (OLP) is to promote standards and certification for e-discovery professionals and providers and ultimately “…provide the legal community with a means of assuring its clients that its e-discovery professionals possess the requisite level of competence and understanding of e-discovery principles.”

You can read more about this in an article written by Robert J. Ambrogi that was posted on the legal.com blog watch by clicking here.

In a recent article by Randy George, of Information Week, there is a focus on the growth of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) within the IT departments of organizations.

One of the largest motivations for increased support for DLP within organizations is to ensure and satisfy regulatory compliance requirements by that organization.  And, meeting these requirements remains an important element of every organization’s business continuity plan.

Some of the results from recent studies on this topic are well represented in graphical formats in this article.

Is your organization in line with this continuing trend by IT security professionals?

The U.S. holiday weekend marks the approximate half-year point for 2009.  To date, we all know how volatile and unusual this year has been compared to many past years — especially for the IT departments of our companies.  The year is not yet finished and there are some definite trends that we believe possible in the area of regulatory compliance for IT and need to stated because of the potential impact those trends may have on those IT departments.

Alexander B. Howard, Associate Editor of SearchCompliance.com has organized a great resource and summary of the top regulatory compliance trends happening now and certain to have an effect on IT for the remaining months of 2009.

Please comment and add any trends you believe have not been mentioned in this article.

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