Lawsuits can be an expensive IT threat
"For instance, if a company agrees to turn over Excel spreadsheets, are they required to turn over the formulas used to generate data in the cells? "Is the formula in Excel data or data about data?" Benson says.
Litigation-response teams need to form as soon as possible to be prepared before lawsuits hit, because in some states businesses have just 99 days to negotiate exactly what data they will turn over for the other side to examine and "99 days in the legal world is a nanosecond," Benson says."
