Information Governance & Compliance

What is information governance at iDS?

Information governance at iDS reduces the risk before it becomes a matter. We build data maps, retention policy, and Data Footprint reduction, plus audit and compliance readiness across the US and EU. The work is designed by people who have seen which gaps get exploited in litigation, so you end up with controls you can actually evidence.

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What does an information governance engagement with iDS include?

Data maps, retention policy, and Data Footprint reduction, plus audit and compliance readiness across the US and EU. The work is designed by people who have seen which gaps get exploited in litigation. You receive a governance strategy that lowers cost and risk at once, and controls you can actually evidence.

Can a retention policy really reduce how much data we keep?

In one engagement with a global software company that had never had a record retention program, iDS helped implement a global email retention program. The retention period was cut from permanent to 18 months, and stored email dropped by more than 75%. Subsequent phases will address file shares, structured data, and computers issued to employees.

Why involve litigation experts in information governance?

Because the questions come back in litigation: what data do we hold, why, and what would we be able to show about how our systems were run? Our governance work is designed by people who have seen which gaps get exploited in litigation, and the same firm provides expert testimony when a matter arrives.

What is at stake

The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.

The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.

Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.

When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.

You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.

iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.

You know the law. We help you know the evidence.

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Tell us what you need to establish. We will tell you what the evidence shows, what it does not, and what it means for your case.

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