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By David Katz
Extract: Amid the vast array of sources of unstructured data that can be used to manage corporate risk, email is getting special attention. “If you’re taking a look at where risks sit in your enterprise, email is probably the most vulnerable part,” says Xerox Litigation’s Hellewell. “And within a corporation, it certainly qualifies as Big Data because there’s a lot of it.”
In the context of the risk of lawsuits and regulatory investigations, he adds, “it’s the primary target of what people are asking for and sifting through.”
While Hellewell focuses a great deal on searching through the unstructured text of thousands of emails in helping his clients avert lawsuits, he also expends a lot of effort in investigating the patterns in the metadata of employees’ email communications. “We discovered that the great thing about unstructured data was that it has this very rich layer of metadata, and metadata can also be very, very revealing about risk,” he says. “In some cases as much as the text.”
Read the complete article at: Big Data, Smaller Risk