Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Future Proof blog watchers may have seen today’s Sydney Morning Herald article ‘Fake emails: how easy are they …to spot or make?’
(go to: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/fake-emails-how-easy-are-they–to-spot-or-make-20090623-cuzq.html)
It is interesting to see the following advice in the article from digital forensics expert Graham Thompson:
“The trick in exposing what’s fake or real, Thompson explained, is to obtain an electronic copy of the email and [...]

Is your organisation being choked with emails? Are so many emails being sent and received that the problem of managing them has become gargantuan in proportion? Does it sometimes seem easier to ignore the problem than look for those elusive solutions?
The good news is you are not alone!
NSW government organisations receive millions of emails each [...]

A belated ‘Happy New Year’ from all the staff at State Records. We hope you all had a safe and relaxing festive season.
What is Future Proof update?
Welcome to the very first edition of Future Proof update. We envisage that Future Proof update will be a monthly blog focusing on digital recordkeeping issues and developments. We [...]

Requirements for destroying digital records
The destruction of digital records is different to the destruction of hardcopy records. In particular, simply pressing ‘delete’ does not necessarily mean that the records are completely gone; while the link used to access them may be removed, they may still exist in a data store or on a server in the [...]