Protecting Data Files.

• Position: Business Briefs - Brief Article

A new priority since Sept. 11 is increased protection of business documents. Reports of the affected firms' struggles to recover from the loss of millions of pieces of paper -- reports, time sheets, invoices and bills -- has triggered widespread interest in safeguarding company histories by converting massive volumes of paper and microfiche into secure electronic formats,

Mike Fee, director of banking and financial services at Mobius Management Systems, a New York-based technology firm that works with Fortune 100 companies on e-archiving and document storage, offers a "Top Five To-Do" list for CFOs and banking/finance executives:

1. Ensure that documents can be linked through shared values such as vendor number, account number, territory or product.

2. Select the easiest, most agile way to capture the documents from all formats (transfer from applications in the company system, scan from...