We’ve previously discussed how good records management fosters transparency. Today, we want to take a deep dive into one of the positive effects of transparency: trust-building. As with transparency, good records management will cultivate trust [...]

In records management, transparency is often overlooked as a success factor, yet it is a critical and necessary ingredient in any effective records management program. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) itself stresses [...]

The majority of data breaches and malware attacks occur as a result of vulnerabilities that are patchable - and thus potentially preventable. Vulnerability scanning is the solution. But what is vulnerability scanning? How does it [...]

As a rank and file employee, you may not spend a lot of time worrying about the well-being of your agency, but you should. Like it or not, your fortunes and the fortunes of the [...]

With telecommuting quickly becoming the norm and millions of employees working out of their own homes, there has been a disconnect between agencies and their workers. Many of those new telecommuters do not know when, [...]

With the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies found that the only way to keep production up was to let employees work from home. While this workforce keeps production and public services flowing, it adds considerable cybersecurity [...]

Previously, we wrote about the risks created by the ambitious deadline set by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for federal agencies to convert to (mostly) all electronic records management by the end [...]