EDRM Releases A New Model For Analyzing Private Data

Recent high-profile data breaches have placed security of personally identifiable information (PII) at the forefront of many organizations' concerns. Protecting PII and other private data can be a significant undertaking. Legal and IT departments must work together to accomplish this goal. Understanding how to identify the various sources of information breaches and types of storage areas can be daunting; companies increasingly adopt new technologies and tools that spread PII across their organization and beyond. Recently, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) released a model for systematically identifying and reducing the risks associated with moving protected data.

The EDRM is widely viewed by the e-discovery industry as one of the leading developers of standards for various e-discovery issues. As such, the EDRM's data group created the Privacy and Security Risk Reduction Model (PSRRM) to provide organizations with a process for mitigating the risks