Organizational Aspects When Protecting Business Information and Records

Often and not without reason, people realize that the adequately secure handling of purely business-related information and records is one of the more herculean core-tasks of information security. But: No business can afford to not think about it. This because the amount of data a business has to deal with keeps growing extraordinarily fast. And also because data and records are more often than not handled in a mostly unstructured way. However, business information as well as records are in critical need of protection and, also, businesses have to observe legal and regulatory prerequisites when it comes to storage and revision-proofing of said data.This paper was written in 2014 as part of a research project at scip AG, Switzerland. It was initially published online at https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20140904 and is available in English and German. Providing our clients with innovative research for the information technology of the future is an essential part of our company culture