<p>As social collaboration becomes more common among organizations, there is a need to balance the ability for employees and partners to work together, yet ensure that information is secure and used properly. I spoke with Kurt Mueffelmann, HiSoftware President and CEO, about these issues and how HiSoftware can help. Know Your Data, Secure Your Data</p><p>Most organizations today are concerned about compliance and the sensitive nature of their information. They want to know how to lock it down, and know who's doing what with it. HiSoftware provides this through secure metadata and forensic activity for SharePoint 2010, 2013 or even good ol'MOSS. Taken even further, let's take those governance capabilities across all your file shares, into the cloud and some of your social collaboration software, especially as SharePoint takes on more social functionality and partners like NewsGator continue to add more social collaboration to SharePoint.</p><p>Who needs a high level of governance anyway? It's not just regulated industries, although they definitely have a higher demand. It's CIOs working on a information broader strategy, SharePoint Administrators trying get better ROI on their systems, and any organization that has a risk management and compliance strategy.</p><p>The reality is, SharePoint is widely used across a lot of organizations of many different sizes. It may be at the team level, the department level, or enterprise wide. Introduce BYOD into the mix and now you have to identify areas of sensitive document access and proactively ensure that information stays protected but still give employees more options for working unchained to the desk.Proactive vs Reactive Governance</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/hisoftwares-kurt-mueffelmann-talks-compliance-secure-data-for-sharepoint-021527.php">Keep reading...</a></p>