Information Security News: Sometimes the best defense is deletion

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/727190/sometimes-the-best-defense-is-deletion

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
January 23, 2013

Big Data is viewed as a very good thing by most enterprises. With the right 
analytics, it can generate meaning and business value. But like with many 
things there can be too much of a good thing, say a number of Information 
Governance (IG) experts.
Their message is that enterprises need to do more than protect their data from 
theft or infection -- they need to get rid of some of it, for both economic and 
legal reasons.
Dumping data has a variety of names, so far, including defensible disposition, 
defensible deletion and active expiration. Barry Murphy, cofounder and 
principal analyst at eDJ Group, prefers defensible deletion (DD).
What is more important than the label, Murphy wrote in a post in eDiscovery 
Journal, however: "Companies can reduce costs and decrease risks by proactively 
getting rid of unnecessary information."
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