New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s use of an encrypted messaging app raises legal and ethical questions, writes Marianna Shafir, with data security solutions company Smarsh. Transparency, especially for public officials, is key to public trust, and lack of transparency and data retrieval can result in damaging lawsuits, she says.

Addressing the demands of a mobile, virtual, and stay-at-home workforce is not a new topic. Hiring the best talent — regardless of whether or not they reside in proximity to company facilities — is a competitive reality for many organizations. But the global coronavirus outbreak has suddenly amplified interest in this trend at companies large and small around the world.

Millions of employees are now working from home as many cities, counties and states have restricted travel and limited interpersonal interaction in an effort to lower the spread of the coronavirus as more people are impacted by it.

Inc. teamed with PrivCo to create an exclusive roster of the 1,000 biggest and brightest American companies that have stayed private. While many of these iconic businesses have been outperforming for decades, such as sheet music powerhouse Hal Leonard and winter sports maven Sport Obermeyer, this year's list also includes fast-growing newcomers like delivery service DoorDash and A.I. startup C3 IoT. Scroll down for more on these remarkable companies.

Modern businesses have a more global reach than ever before. Technology has fundamentally changed the way employees work, communicate and collaborate. While global connectivity offers business opportunities, it also creates substantial challenges when it comes to archiving communications.

Smarsh is now offering integration with Brainspace, a leading data analytics platform for investigations, e-discovery, and compliance.

Smarsh Enterprise Archive customers can leverage Brainspace machine learning to find new patterns in complex data, reduce time and cost for e-discovery

Smarsh Enterprise Archive customers can leverage Brainspace machine learning to find new patterns in complex data, reduce time and cost for e-discovery

The Henderson County Commissioners Court approved ,000 Tuesday for the Smarsh software service, which provides an archiving system for text messages.

In the latest Star Wars film, “The Rise of Skywalker,” a droid robot is summoned more than once to ingest and sort through vast volumes of documentation to identify and extract critical data that helps the central characters win their battles in a galaxy far, far away.

In response to the rapidly spreading coronavirus, some financial advisory firms are telling their staffs to work from home, a move that adds compliance challenges to the other problems caused by the pandemic.

Get ahead, stay ahead. That is the mantra that any good business leader repeats to themself every day. In theory, this means taking the time to understand what the future holds for your business, your industry and your competitors.

New categories of electronically stored information are quickly posing new sources of risk, not only for e-discovery within civil litigation, but also regulatory and internal investigations, as well as Freedom of Information Act requests.

The popularity of encryption platforms may muddle investigations, and create some tricky liability under state breach notification laws.

PORTLAND, Ore., & LONDON, January 8, 2020 – Smarsh®, helping customers get ahead – and stay ahead – of the risk within their electronic communications, today announced the expansion of support for voice content within both its Enterprise Archive and Professional Archive platforms.