Widely-reported cases such as Zubulake-Warburg ($29.2 million initial judgment for Zubulake which was subsequently settled) and Coleman v. Morgan Stanley ($1.5b fine assessed to Morgan Stanley by SEC) have shed light on the issues surrounding improper management of information in the enterprise today. Beyond e-mail, companies must gain control over many forms and formats of content (structured as well as unstructured) in order to avoid such risk exposure. Organizations also have a responsibility to protect the privacy of their customers and employees. This covers for instance medical privacy (example: patient medical history), citizen privacy (example: race and age), and financial privacy (example: credit card numbers). Today, companies are consequently spending more on legal defense costs which are attributed to increasing fears of successful class actions resulting from customer, consumer or employee data loss.

Within the enterprise, there are two very different views to address the concerns of information risk management. The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is responsible for the entire organization and typically reports directly to the CEO and Board of Directors. The CCO must enforce compliance with regulations through business processes and information flows across business units, applications, and geographic locations/jurisdictions. The CCO endorses and supports enterprise-level, centralized policy definition. On the other hand, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) must achieve compliance across complex network infrastructure, must address heterogeneity of platforms, applications, and content repositories and must embrace principles of federated control and enforcement. Only a properly architected solution can address the concerns of both the CCO and CIO.

RSD GLASS™ is the first proven solution on the market to enable the creation of a robust information governance platform which enforces policies over heterogeneous, distributed repositories (i.e. mainframe, open systems, commercial applications, custom software). The fundamentals of RSD GLASS are to promote collaboration between all stakeholders while developing transparency and creating accountability around enterprise information management. RSD GLASS provides the CCO visibility on evolving laws, rules and regulations while giving the CIO the assurance information is being managed in accordance with the defined policies.

• Delivers constant compliance by protecting information from the threat of unauthorized access, loss or destruction
• Helps enforce corporate best practices and comply with government regulations using state of the art retention management, detailed audit trails, and flexible reporting capabilities
• Provides 360 degree view of protecting information
• Leverages your existing IT infrastructure for an enterprise-wide information governance platform
• Institutes and manages an information security policy across all repositories