Every safeguards obligation your firm carries — Reg S-P, your fiduciary duty, your insurance representations, the breach-notification clock — shares one silent prerequisite: knowing where customer information actually lives. Most firms cannot answer that question with a document. They answer it with a person, usually whoever has been in operations longest, and that person’s memory is the firm’s de facto data map.
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