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391 A Better Way When it Comes to Record Privacy
Information leaks can completely cripple an otherwise well-equipped organization of any size, and more often than not, a large percentage of such leaks are due to internal oversight. In a digital era of information fluidity, where widespread exchange and data sharing is a necessary requisite of interaction with other firms and agencies, your company or bureau absolutely must to make sure that there are no omissions when it comes to redacting the records that make up the backbone of your business
Posted on Apr-02-2010

353 Software that Gets Work Done
Need to release a document for public viewing or inter-agency data sharing? If you do, there's little doubt that you're going to need to make sure that whatever the contents of that record are, they aren't private, or that if they are, they're blacked out. While you can simply get away with stamping "CONFIDENTIAL," "NOFORN" or another classification restriction on the top and bottom of some pages, as per government standard regulations, there are most assuredly going to be cases in which such ta
Posted on Apr-02-2010

417 For Perfect Redactions Go Entirely Digital
Redactions are a dreaded task. For those of you who deal with confidential and secure information, leaving an uncontrolled paper trail is nothing less than a surefire way to ensure that you'll have a substantial mess to clean up later. Removing information from your documents before final publication can be difficult when most common digital redaction approaches use incorrect methods like simply covering up data using PDF annotations instead of actually deleting it. In many such cases, the infor
Posted on Apr-02-2010

336 Prepare to Redact and Never Look Back
When your boss lets you know that you've got to make a hundred minor changes to a 23-page legal contract for a new template document, you've got no choice but to grin and bear it, at least when you're using regular methods. There'll be no getting around searching tirelessly through the literal miles of lines of fine print wherein you'll have to locate the pertinent changes you'll need to make hidden like so many buried treasures. The rough part of the whole situation is that it's not even really
Posted on Apr-02-2010

460 Ensure Privacy of Modern Records with Modern Digital Methods
PDF (Portable Document Format) files are used for forms everywhere. While there are many digital format alternatives to the volumes of physical files that once contained information detailing specifics from blood types and social security numbers to names and addresses, PDF files are the most common, and their ease of production and use is no small portion of the reason why. Your organization or firm, no matter what size it is, probably already uses this format on a regular basis, and if you're
Posted on Apr-02-2010

345 Redaction in the Digital Age
Modern information storage technology has reached a point where data is entirely digital. Records which used to fill storage warehouses are now kept securely on personal computers and servers, from which they can be instantly accessed at any time. The low size, high content-capability advantages of the Portable Document Format has seen such PDF based records become ubiquitous denizens of the workplace. PDFs main advantage is that though they are difficult to edit in their native environment, wit
Posted on Apr-02-2010

384 Information Security In House
For many companies and organizations, electronic records are the lifeblood of daily business. In order to maintain high standards of information accessibility and keep storage overhead used to a minimum, PDF (Portable Electronic Document) format has become the most widespread means of information keeping in our modern digital era. If your company has done its homework, you've probably no doubt already gotten some system in place for the storage of important digital documents. Even the most advan
Posted on Apr-02-2010

422 Make document handling a breeze.
Law firms, schools, hospitals and other bureaucratically structured organizations know that document processing can truly require volumes of effort. Editing a single document to remove or redact an element as common as a person's name is a heady undertaking at best, when that same name may appear many tens of times in different locations on multiple pages. The simplest of Generic forms, letters and records all become exceedingly massive jobs to address if changes need to be made, especially when
Posted on Apr-02-2010