The proliferation of desktop databases such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Access has greatly increased company productivity over the years since their release - now a latent problem is emerging.

Call it the 'Y2K' of desktop applications - but if you are currently running any part of your business, however large or small, on legacy Microsoft Access or Lotus Notes technology then you might be facing an imminent technology and financial crisis.

These legacy platforms are aging and no longer have support from the original vendors. They cannot support much of new technology improvements over the past decade, and their lack of security can and should be considered a liability to any company with security requirements.

All of this means one thing - MIGRATION! These challenges have nothing to do with Date placeholders, and the problems to satisfactory resolution are much more complex than that.

If you have begun the process of assessing your current desktop database application platform, you may have already realized the immensity of the problem.

As these programs became pervasive through the information bubble, all types of information ended up being stored in them – it’s not uncommon to find these databases storing privileged data or legislatively-protected information.

When was the last time your company performed an enterprise-wide assessment of all applications that capture data, to check for compliance with laws that have emerged since the app was created? Chances are you probably haven't completed that exercise and are most likely at risk of violation of a number of laws, domestic and international.

With recent changes in law and a seeming apathy in attitude towards security policy, companies are forced to re-think their approach to enforcing policy through technology. Ask anyone who’s been compromised and had to pay for it: they never saw it coming.

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