Australian companies are enthusiastically adopting a new service from Index Engines that allows them find out what’s on their backup tapes without having to download the contents, according to Rod McKemmish who leads KPMG’s Forensic Technology group in Sydney.

Brian Bailey looks at Information and Records Management (IRM) challenges in terms of the fundamentals - people, process and technology – and how they serve to highlight the disproportionate effort organisations expend on IT over other risk factors.