ETRM Group's Kenya Dixon recently appeared on ACEDS Live. If you missed it, you can now watch it online here. Kenya and ACEDS Live Host Maribel Rivera cover a range of topics, including the launch of the ETRM Group, Kenya's past experience at the White House, career advice and women as leaders. Be sure to tune in!
On Wednesday, September 23, our own Kenya Dixon was named the “Stellar Women in eDiscovery” award winner for 2020 by the team at Relativity. This was the first time Kenya qualified for the award. Kenya was named a finalist for the award back in August and was among several accomplished women in the eDiscovery field to be recognized for their work. She recently participated in a conversation with the rest [...]
Empire Technologies Risk Management Group (ETRM Group), the experts on data security, today announced it has selected the iCONECT eDiscovery review platform to manage electronic evidence for legal and governance projects within in a secure web-based repository. This will enhance Empire Technologies Risk Management Group’s business in the cybersecurity space that assists law firms, corporations and government agencies secure data and optimize critical business processes. “The ETRM Group recognizes that [...]
In mid-March of 2020, most businesses in the United States either shut down temporarily or sent all employees home to telework due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As millions of Americans logged on to their home networks and personal desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones in an attempt to keep their companies afloat, cybersecurity issues arose as a complicated problem that companies had to manage. Many corporations – and law firms [...]
Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, the experts on data security, officially launches today to help commercial and government organizations secure and optimize critical business processes by providing services including cybersecurity, eDiscovery, managed review, and information governance. The company’s lawyers and technologists have more than 100 years of collective experience in cybersecurity and information governance, having served the Department of Defense, the Federal Trade Commission, the White House, law firms and [...]
Data is an asset and a liability. It fits into both accounting columns and will not fail to be used against a corporate entity if not secured properly. Databases contain trade secrets, personally identifiable information, HIPAA-protected health care information, proprietary information and classified data. They also house sensitive information and evidence of liability or criminal behavior. As the size of databases grew, one thing became apparent: the information stored in [...]
Strangely enough, not much should have changed during pandemic times if corporate entities, government agencies and vendors have been following best practices for data collection in the ever-changing industry of electronic discovery and forensics. Data collection for criminal matters, corporate investigations or civil discovery used to be a tedious and time-consuming process mostly conducted on a customer site or where a subpoena was executed. In the past few years, however, [...]
America is in an upheaval and U.S. corporations need to pay attention. The coronavirus pandemic and social unrest are combining to form the perfect storm for a country whose businesses already are vulnerable to different and more frequent attacks to their infrastructure via data breaches and ransomware threats. Threat actors and cyber criminals are observing the news in America and determining how to best attack U.S. businesses when they are [...]
By the time you read this, Americans will have been working from home for more than three months. This has never happened before in this country during the age of technology. As millions logged on to their home networks and personal devices in an attempt to keep their companies afloat, cybersecurity issues rose to the forefront of the many issues that companies had to manage. You can read the full [...]
Kenya Dixon, our General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, joins the FEDSpace podcast to talk about her extensive experience with information governance and risk management while in the federal government. They touch on topics ranging from her experience with high risk litigation situations to how technology has changed the way the federal government manages its data. SUMMARY Kenya Dixon. General Counsel and Operating Officer at the Empire Technologies Risk Management [...]