Sherpa Software

05/05/2021

SHERPA SOFTWARE IS NOW PART OF GIMMAL! To learn more, go to https://bit.ly/3umeGww or check out the press release here: https://bit.ly/3enO74x

03/31/2021

Operation Information Governance Revamp with GRC Expert: INTEL

Sherpa Software’s four-part webinar series Operation IG Revamp continues on April 8 at 1:00 PM ET. The purpose of these cumulative learning sessions is to give you the insight needed to root out potential sensitive data gaps and risks. Once you understand the issues, you can design and implement a smarter plan for locating and protecting information — now and into the future. Even if you have a solid process in place, this step-by-step review will provide peace of mind that sensitive and personal data — such as recorded Zoom meetings and health screening records — are known and stored properly.

PART 2: INTEL: James Amsler, Director for BDO Digital’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) practice and Rick Wilson (Sherpa Software’s VP of Strategy & Solutions) will discuss information lifecycle compliance gaps and internal stakeholder ‘buy-in.’

REGISTER: https://tinyurl.com/zbvevmns

During this webinar, discover best practices for evaluating your organization’s information to eliminate ROT as well as the proper way to apply classification to enforce ongoing records retention. We’ll answer the questions:

• How do you extend records management policies and procedures to remote workforces?
• Should you adjust records retention schedules to accommodate new types of data?

MEET THE GRC EXPERT: Jim Amsler is well versed in data privacy, litigation readiness and information lifecycle management disciplines. He ensures that clients maximize the value of their information assets by understanding and implementing the appropriate compliance controls relevant to their data ecosystem.

With 25+ years of experience focused on information lifecycle management, data protection and information governance, he helps clients meet regulatory and compliance mandates such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In addition to leading privacy and client engagements, Jim is also a recognized leader within the privacy and information governance disciplines. His knowledge also extends to European and United States privacy regulations and he has conducted IAPP certification courses, preparing privacy professionals for key industry certifications. His professional affiliations include IAPP FIP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM and CIPT.

03/03/2021

JOIN US TOMORROW AT 1:00 PM ET FOR PART 1! Operation IG Revamp: How to Comply with InfoGov and eDiscovery Requirements in a Post-COVID WFH World

https://tinyurl.com/2ah4ryxr

What new types of data are you now dealing with (e.g., recorded Zoom meetings)? What privacy concerns have arisen (e.g., health screenings and contact tracing data)? Learn the best ways to uncover the post-pandemic sensitive content on employee workstations, in cloud storage or anywhere else it may be hiding. Review your current approaches to this process to root out potential gaps and risks.

03/03/2021

FOUR-PART SERIES STARTS TOMORROW! Operation IG Revamp: How to Comply with InfoGov and eDiscovery Requirements in a Post-COVID WFH World | THUR 3/2 AT 1:00 PM ET

Although the disruption of 2020 is behind us, many organizations are still in a state of flux. A larger percentage (maybe 100%) of your team is working from home and will continue to do so in the future or permanently. Now is the time to rethink your information governance and eDiscovery strategy. What content was haphazardly stashed over the last 12 months? How can you design, implement and comply with a plan that will protect your data and meet policy requirements moving forward? If these two questions raise your anxiety level, take a deep breath and let it out because this webinar will provide a framework to help you regain and maintain control.

During this four-part series Operation IG Revamp, Sherpa Software — along with its information governance partners — will break down the process of instituting a comprehensive IG and eDiscovery strategy. By completing each of these steps, you’ll be able to uncover data pitfalls and put plans in place that will keep your organization’s information orderly and compliant ... all without being overwhelmed.

PART 1: What new types of data are you now dealing with (e.g., recorded Zoom meetings)? What privacy concerns have arisen (e.g., health screenings and contact tracing data)? Learn the best ways to uncover the post-pandemic sensitive content on employee workstations, in cloud storage or anywhere else it may be hiding. Review your current approaches to this process to root out potential gaps and risks. https://bit.ly/2Ol9XuC

12/17/2020

Sherpa Software is excited to unveil a new, ongoing video series as a way to share helpful tips and use cases about Sherpa Altitude. These 2-to-4 minute summaries of the solution’s features and functionality — some of which you may be unfamiliar with — are presented by Sherpa Software’s VP of Strategy & Solutions Rick Wilson. In this first episode, Rick explains how connectors and agents can be updated automatically. Check out this 3-minute knowledge nugget: https://bit.ly/3r3MVaG

12/02/2020

WEBINAR TOMORROW: Learn How One University Saved $100K on Data Governance

https://bit.ly/2Jk2Gtd

SCHOOL’S IN SESSION: Point Park University (PPU) — a private liberal arts university located in Pittsburgh, PA — has thousands of users on a variety of devices. With so many people active on their network at all times, monitoring and managing the location and usage of sensitive data, copyrighted content and other information had been a difficult task.

Join us tomorrow December 3 at 1:00 PM ET as Tim Wilson, Assistant Vice President IT Services, Point Park University and Sherpa Software VP of Strategy & Solution Rick Wilson share details about how PPU overcame its security challenge to help the school quickly search vast numbers of unstructured and structured files across their network. They will also discuss audit trails, compliance and reduced security costs.

All attendees will receive a handy game plan guide that outlines a project approach similar to the one discussed in the session.

11/05/2020

Join us at Data Connectors Great Lakes today to learn more about the best practices for automating your sensitive data discovery process. Stop by the Sherpa Software virtual booth to learn more: https://bit.ly/32h7Jkp

10/29/2020

Point Park University Goes to School on Sensitive Data Discovery to Answer Data Security & Streamline Data Governance Needs

Point Park University (PPU) — a private liberal arts university located in Pittsburgh, PA — has thousands of users on a variety of devices. With so many people active on their network at all times, monitoring and managing the location and usage of sensitive data, copyrighted content and other information had been a difficult task.

The complexity of this task came to light when the university received a cease-and-desist letter requiring that they find and delete a copyrighted video that they didn't know existed on their network. Responding manually to these — and other information management needs — was taking significant and costly time and resources from the university’s IT team.

SOLUTION
PPU turned to Sherpa Software’s Altitude solution to automate sensitive data discovery as part of their information governance program. Now their IT team is able to quickly search vast numbers of unstructured and structured files across the university network. They can reach out to local laptops — to get to the data that would otherwise be impossible to reach — by using qualifiers such as:

• keywords
• type of content contained
• file extensions
• PII (personal information) matching
• metadata

In addition to locating specific content, Altitude allows PPU to scan all files for sensitive data such as student information and bank routing numbers. Once identified, the files in question can be easily secured, managed or deleted as required by university data retention policies and compliance regulations such as FERPA, HIPAA, GLBA, GDPR and CCPA.

RESULTS
Implementing Sherpa Software’s Altitude is saving PPU nearly $100,000 annually compared to Office365 E5. In addition, the school is able to reach data located on local laptops with potential risky sensitive data that may have been hiding ... something Office365 can’t do. Altitude’s automated solutions will also equip the compliance team to respond faster to eDiscovery legal requirements, and make it easier to ensure that all sensitive data is stored in compliance with institutional and federal policies. Doing so will significantly decrease organizational risk and free up IT team members to focus their time on other important projects to the benefit of the entire university.

10/26/2020

Attending ARMA InfoCon (https://bit.ly/37JozMa)? Sherpa Software will be discussing how emerging technologies — and proven processes and workflows — can empower end-users to make and communicate informed, actionable decisions about data retention and disposition.

User-Driven Data Governance: Putting the ‘People’ Back in People, Process and Technology

Tuesday, October 27 | 3:10- 4:00 PM ET
Rick Wilson, VP of Strategy & Solutions, Sherpa Software
Jeffrey Sharer, Chief Innovation Counsel, Actuate Law
Chris Bednar, Global Records Manager, Bain & Company

Traditional approaches to data governance start with policies and procedures, and then rely on one or maybe two, but rarely all three, of the timeworn trio: people, process and technology. The results often are enormous volumes of information retained that are neither required by law nor valuable to the business. But this data does create risk and increase costs.

New thinking challenges traditional mindsets that state the weak leg of the ‘PP&T’ stool is people: When everyone has more work to do than hours in the day, corporate IG may struggle to get end-users to not hoard data as their path of least effort.

You won’t want to miss the insightful conversation about how having people make smart data choices means real-time, improved information hygiene and results in better compliance, less over-retention, and reduced risk and cost.

ARMA International is a community of information management and information governance professionals who harness the strategic power of information. ARMA provides educational resources, professional certification, and unparalleled networking opportunities. We set the standards and best practices tha...

10/12/2020

ICYMI: Sherpa Software’s President & CEO Kevin Ogrodnik was a guest speaker on TrustArc’s Serious Privacy podcast discussing the challenges of data retention, eDiscovery and finding data across various systems. If you are a digital hoarder with a jammed inbox and documents spread across multiple file locations (or know people who match this description), you'll want to check out this 35-minute conversation.

Are you a digital hoarder? Are you someone who always has a full mailbox? Then you know that finding the right data isn’t always easy. In this episode, K Royal chats with Kevin Ogrodnik, president of Sherpa Software, about the challenges of data d...

09/15/2020

Join us this Thursday at 1:10 PM PT at the Data Connectors virtual conference when Sherpa Software's Rick Wilson will review the insider threats — both intentional and accidental — that a dispersed workforce can present. Register for free: https://bit.ly/3c1VeNh

09/10/2020

Sherpa Software — and our partner Lepide — recently discussed the pros and cons of the two data protection approaches: zero trust vs. trust but verify. Access the recordings and slides for this two-part webinar series:

In a time when cyber attacks are at an all-time high due to the global pandemic and privacy regulators are more watchful of the handling of sensitive data, info sec leaders might need to re-evaluate their approaches. In spite of many companies moving their data to cloud storage, we know that remote....