We are in a global pandemic, which has changed almost everything about the way we live and do business. We are seeing the effects on our jobs, our lifestyles and our finances – but what we are not seeing, and may not notice for some time, is the damage being done to our data. As …
We are very excited to be announced as Finalists for both the Australian RegTech of the Year Award and the RegTech Female Founder Award, to be announced at the RegTech Association RegTech Awards in March. The RegTech Association is an incredibly important group in Australia, where the RegTech sector is growing rapidly. The Association has …
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Microsoft continues to evolve the Office 365 service to meet governance, compliance and regulatory requirements across the globe. The Microsoft compliance page is filled with lists of compliance statements and evidence organised by geographic location, regulation, policy and standard. One of the compliance areas that Microsoft is improving is Records Management, in particular being able …
I recently wrote an article for IDM Magazine discussing the essential rules behind what is and is not a ‘record’. Paradoxically, although it is obviously fundamental to what records managers do, this is one of the topics that seems to be most misunderstood. It’s clear from the legislation and regulation that anything showing evidence of …
As compliance specialists, information and security managers are accountable for applying the organisation’s obligations to their regulated data. This means Records Authorities, Acts, Regulations, government policies, and international standards. We can build systems to comply with those obligations – but what happens when the rules change? The Thompson Reuters Cost of Compliance Report 2019 found …
Castlepoint was recently invited to participate in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Services Exports Roundtable at Parliament House, hosted by the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham. The session discussed the recent Boosting Services Exports Report, and the Industry responses to the Department’s key discussion points. One of …
One of our case studies has recently been published in IDM Magazine. We previously discussed the findings in this post. In the time since undertaking this work with that agency, we have deployed Castlepoint in many other government departments. Each has a different use case for Castlepoint – one is using CP over Office 365 …
The New South Wales Audit Office has just criticised 40 of the largest NSW government agencies for failures in their information governance. The Department of Education, NSW Police, Treasury and Service NSW were all found to have shortfalls in both records management and the security management of their high-risk data. Two of the findings common …
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Visit iDM Magazine for our latest article on trends in information regulation affecting organisations – and what this means for traditional records management. The drive to automate comes partly from Federal government (the Department of Finance recommended a move to automation in 2015), but mostly from the impracticality of continuing to register, sentence and dispose …
Yesterday, Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews announced the AI Ethics Framework, consisting of a set of Principles, and guidance for how and when to apply them. In essence, the government hopes these principles will be used by anyone designing or implementing an AI-based system that produces outcomes that could impact people, the …
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