According to OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea, “With this acquisition, OpenText’s corporate mission expands to help enterprise professionals secure their operations, gain more insight into their information, and better manage an increasingly hybrid and complex digital fabric with a new generation of tools that include Cybersecurity, Digital Operations Management, Applications Modernization & Delivery and AI & Analytics. This new generation of Information Management software will help organizations accelerate their digital transformation and drive growth while reducing costs.”

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Once upon a time, there was a brand called Conquest for Discovery, specializing in providing insight and intelligence from digital data to support audits, investigations, and litigation. To highlight its offerings and make it easier for customers to understand its services, the eDiscovery provider for the Conquest for Discovery brand divided its brand-centric offerings into five sub-brands: Educate, Operate, Protect, Automate, and Integrate.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), delays in the provision to Ukraine of Western long-range fires systems, advanced air defense systems, and tanks have limited Ukraine’s ability to take advantage of opportunities for larger counter-offensive operations presented by flaws and failures in Russian military operations.

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Contract reviewer staffing can help law firms and corporations augment or outsource review requirements by providing them with experienced legal professionals who can assist with the review of electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a legal request or investigation. This can be especially beneficial in situations where a law firm or corporation lacks the internal resources or expertise to handle a large-scale review, or where the review needs to be completed quickly to meet a tight deadline.

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From industry investment and international expansion to data privacy laws and eDiscovery review spending, the January 2023 edition of the Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals on cyber, data, and legal discovery.

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Since January 2016, 2,939 individual responses to twenty-nine quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence surveys have been received from cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. These nonscientific quarterly surveys are designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the field of eDiscovery supporting cyber, data, and legal discovery tasks. 65 respondents shared their informed opinions as part of the most recent survey.

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Cooperation with law enforcement is a strategy that every corporation involved in a government investigation must consider. The benefits of cooperation are clear and include reduced penalties, swifter resolutions, and less burdensome investigations. Cooperation with the government has proven a cost-effective strategy for some organizations in recent years, with some companies facing lower or no fines. Conversely, failing to cooperate risks antagonizing the investigator which can cause problems for the corporation. However, in the nebulous middle ground, there are some cases in which a company must carefully consider the pros and cons of cooperation with the government.

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“The AI Risk Management Framework can help companies and other organizations in any sector and any size to jump-start or enhance their AI risk management approaches,” shared Laurie Locascio, Undersecretary for Standards and Technology and NIST Director. “It offers a new way to integrate responsible practices and actionable guidance to operationalize trustworthy and responsible AI. We expect the AI RMF to help drive development of best practices and standards.”

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While an understanding of decisions from definitions and elements to cornerstones and classifications is important, ultimately, for any decision to be optimally implemented, it is important to give those who have decision making accountability and responsibility the authority and control to make decisions.

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“Understanding Slack's Digital HQ philosophy that encourages more work to be contained and performed within Slack to facilitate greater productivity was at the forefront of our thinking when designing Command Center,” said Dave Ruel, Head of Product, Hanzo. “It was important for us to empower enterprise legal teams to improve their workflows by enabling them to manage ediscovery processes in Slack where they were already working.”

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