Will be presented on August 25, 2022

There’s no universal approach to information governance. Strategies are diverse and, because they dictate your information governance policies and procedures, getting it right matters. One popular option is a Microsoft-based setup. But how effective is that?

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Michael Sampson of Osterman Research and Laurence O’Brien from Micro Focus lead a discussion around the pros and cons of using Microsoft 365 to manage your information governance. Among other topics, we’ll cover:

• Correctly classifying every information type in an organization’s data landscape
• Discerning the data requiring special protections from more expendable files
• Deciding how to store and otherwise manage data from the point of creation
• Ensuring only those authorized can access different groupings of data
• Using automated mechanisms to audit access and mitigate over-exposure
• Providing the ability to audit communication for compliance
• Filtering repositories to identify data potentially responsive to eDiscovery requests
• Excluding irrelevant data before creating a collection for external review

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Presented on: October 15, 2021

Endpoints enable productive work and connect employees to the organization’s intellectual property. Endpoints are also a risk and threat vector.

Michael Sampson from Osterman Research and Ed Gavin from Micro Focus offer a candid conversation on the organizations rejecting the implementation of a strong backup approach for endpoints and instead preferring to sync only some data with OneDrive.

In this session you will learn:

• Why OneDrive is not enough to reduce risk or organizational threats
• What the current organizational threats are: insider threats, the risk of lost and stolen devices, and ransomware incidents (among others) that continue to threaten the integrity of endpoints
• How the core drivers for endpoint backup are ones that benefit the organization: data retention, disaster recovery, legal hold and eDiscovery, and counteracting insider threats, among others
• How hidden productivity loss and help desk costs are realized every time devices are compromised, lost, or stolen

Date: July 21, 2021

Focus of the webinar

As the use of Microsoft Teams has exploded, compliance officers, information governance professionals, and other risk management decision-makers must determine whether they have the right tools to secure the information that comes out of this collaboration tool, for their compliance, legal processes, and internal investigations.

Using a third-party archiving and data protection solution to capture point-in-time and point-in-context actions, enables organizations to take advantage of new capabilities within Teams without undermining their compliance requirements.

Watch the replay with Pierre Chamberland, IPRO Innovation Catalyst and Michael Sampson, Senior Analyst at Osterman Research, who has been consulting on collaboration tools for over 20 years, as they discuss how to evaluate such third-party security solutions and determine requirements for your organization’s specific needs.

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Date: June 24, 2021

Microsoft Teams adoption has skyrocketed with over 145 million daily users in April 2021. While the platform has enhanced the way employees communicate, it comes with a host of new concerns for how to manage this data for compliance, privacy, and eDiscovery. In the last year, over 75% of enterprises have required access to the information created and shared on the platform for compliance audits, eDiscovery, or internal investigations—Are you confident you are governing this data compliantly?

Join experts from ZL Tech and Osterman Research as they discuss how to address the biggest governance and compliance concerns that come with Microsoft Teams adoption.

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In this webinar, Michael Sampson, senior analyst at Osterman Research, covers the survey results about how private chats, edited and deleted messages, screen sharing, use of SharePoint files, and other capabilities of Microsoft Teams challenge compliance archiving, capture, security, and data loss protection mandates of heavily regulated organizations.

The 45-minute conversation is between Michael Sampson (Osterman Research), Devin Redmond (Theta Lake), and Marc Gilman (Theta Lake).

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Sponsored by Backupify, Mimecast, Quest Software and Yubico

Executive Summary

Microsoft 365 delivers a range of long-offered and new style productivity and collaboration tools, ranging from cloud-enhanced versions of the original Word, PowerPoint and Excel suite, along with cloud-delivered editions of Exchange and SharePoint that negate the need for on-premises servers, the new Microsoft Teams application, and a plethora of less adopted services such as Microsoft Planner and Yammer. It’s a capable offering that’s been widely embraced by organizations across the world.

Equally, however, is the reality that Microsoft 365 comes with some shortcomings in the areas of security, archiving, backup, data protection, eDiscovery, and other key aspects of the offering. Relying solely on the native capabilities in Microsoft 365 can lead to challenges, such as missed security threats, duplicate efforts to perform eDiscovery across an organization’s data landscape, and the inability to recover accidentally deleted data. The use of third-party solutions in parallel with Microsoft 365 can address many of the platform’s shortcomings. Many third-party vendors build best-of-breed offerings rather than taking a broad-stroke approach to features.

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Sponsored by NetGovern

Executive Summary

As organizations explore new cloud services for productivity and collaboration, mature information governance capabilities do not become less important. Microsoft, NetGovern and various other third-party vendors offer capabilities for governing information, albeit with strengthens in different areas. Ensuring the right information governance capabilities are available to the various organizational groups with shared responsibility for this area is essential.

This report compares and contrasts the respective approaches to information governance by NetGovern and Microsoft 365. It is offered to enable professionals with responsibility for information governance evaluating the move to Microsoft 365 to gauge suitability to task of the information governance tools offered by both vendors.

This white paper is intended for IT professionals, cybersecurity teams, compliance and risk professionals, and legal teams – including CISOs, CIOs, general counsel and others who need to gain a better understanding of information governance, particularly in the context of how they will handle information governance in Microsoft 365 environments.

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What have organizations been experiencing with their migration to Office 365 during the past year? Will there be a new round of mergers and acquistions – and resulting migrations – once the COVID-19 crisis has ended? What are the key issues to consider during a migration, either from an on-premises solution to the cloud or cloud-to-cloud? What are the biggest problems that organizations experience in migrating to a new platform, especially when they migrate to Office 365?

Join us for this discussion with Mark Kirstein of BitTitan as he shares his insights on these and other issues related to migration.

Sponsored by MailStore

Executive Summary

Despite the increasing use of solutions like Microsoft Teams and Slack, email continues to be the primary method that most users employ for sending and receiving documents and for collaboration with others. Email contains a wealth of critical information and this information must be protected through robust email backup and archiving capabilities so that businesses and users have ready access to this data at all times.

Even though a growing number of businesses are moving to Microsoft 365, they will continue to need employ best practices for email backup and archiving to protect, preserve and keep available their corporate data – backup and archiving don’t just happen automatically in Microsoft 365. Moreover, email backup and archiving capabilities must accommodate scenarios that Microsoft 365 does not handle as well as some third-party solutions, such as hybrid environments and those that include non-Microsoft data.

This white paper discusses why small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) should deploy an email archiving solution, and why they should consider the use of a third-party solution instead of the native email archiving solutions within Microsoft 365.

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Sponsored by BitTitan, Mimecast, Smarsh and Zix

Executive Summary

Migrating an organization’s email and/or archiving systems to Office 365, Exchange Online, Google G Suite or some other email, collaboration or archiving platform is not an easy thing to accomplish. There are a number of critical decisions to make in advance of migrating to a new platform, and the migration process itself requires careful planning and execution over an extended period in order to avoid data corruption, lost chain-of-custody for sensitive data, and ensuring a minimal impact on employee productivity. There is a sequence of activities that must be scoped, agreed upon, and carried out properly in order for the migration to be successful. Aligned with the activities in the migration process are a range of third-party products and services that can simplify and streamline the migration process, improving the end result, while decreasing the risk of human error during the process.

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