Every day, organizations around the world are leaving electronic footprints, creating a trail through email, social media and document storage that, if one fails to pay too close attention, could evolve from harmless to catastrophic quickly.

This reality presented by electronically stored information (ESI) has ushered in the era of information governance, the practice of managing organizational information for security and compliance challenges. Yet given the speed of technology adaption, many struggle to insure their ESI is safe. At kCura’s Relativity Fest, a panel titled “The New IG Playbook for Addressing Threats from Personal Clouds, Cyber Attacks and the IoT” explored some of the major issues that can arise without a proper information governance (IG) protocol, as well as how to overcome them.