Surety’s Wall of Shame Aligns Importance of Data Protection to Top News Trends
Leading Data Integrity Provider Aligns Importance of Data Protection to Top News Trends
HERNDON, VA – July 17, 2006
Surety, LLC, the leading provider of data integrity solutions, today announced a resource for analysts, the media, its customers and other key decision makers in the form of a “watchdog” news repository, The Wall of Shame . The Wall of Shame is designed to support the crucial importance of intellectual property protection across the enterprise and highlight the legal and regulatory risks associated with tampered, stolen or unprotected data through a series of case studies that explore recent corporate scandals associated with the breach of electronic records.
Earlier this year, Surety launched its new website offering a wide array of industry tools including best practices for data integrity through a Podcast campaign and a Webinar series, patent and seminal research, customer case studies, and whitepapers for both business and IT managers who are looking to secure their electronic data. The company chose to add The Wall of Shame to the site to provide a more in-depth look at a number of well-known organizations who are facing legal and corporate charges due to time-based data manipulation.
“Surety built The Wall of Shame to highlight the issues and risks corporations are faced with today; whether its UnitedHealth, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch or IBM, the rapid adoption of going paperless has brought to the surface many issues related to creating, managing and storing electronic documents,” said Tom Klaff, CEO of Surety, LLC. “We would like to see every organization adopt as its core competency the ability to leverage and protect its electronic data. Both validating the authenticity of electronic records and establishing that files were created at a specific time and date are crucial. If companies do not make it a priority to ensure that the integrity of a document can be proven, then they risk unnecessary legal and regulatory exposure.”
To read specific cases mentioned above, including UnitedHealth and IBM, and to watch out for new cases where data manipulation and intellectual property theft has occurred, please visit The Wall of Shame at http://www.surety.com
About Surety, LLC
Founded in 1994, by two prominent Bellcore Scientists, Surety is recognized as a premiere trusted time-stamp authority. The Company's flagship product AbsoluteProof ® provides a security procedure that objectively demonstrate the time and content integrity of electronic records, and places their client organizations in the strongest possible position if and when the legal credibility of that data is challenged by an opposing party. For more information, visit http://www.surety.com.
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Posted: Monday, July 17, 2006