NARA explores effect of mobile devices on records management.

• Position: MOBILE DEVICES - National Archives and Records Administration - Brief article

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is warning agencies about the implications of mobile devices for records management. Beth Cron, a policy analyst at NARA, opened discussion about the mobile challenge on NARA's blog, Records Express.

"When employees use devices without following agency policies or lack mobile device management tools, they open themselves and their agencies up to information, transmission, and operational security risks," wrote Cron. Those risks include lost or stolen devices containing federal records and legal issues related to e-discovery. From a records management perspective, the challenges include:

* Identification of records when content may be located in multiple places

* Capture of complete records in a manner that ensures their authenticity and availability when records frequently change and are located in many places

* Data being stored or replicated on the device or in an application instead of only being accessible from a central repository

* Development and...