Regulatory Issues

New regulatory issues beyond those on privacy are facing institutions these days. One of the more recent interpretations of existing laws (the Freedom of Information Act or their state-level equivalents) classifies email as official written correspondence for schools and government entities. In other cases, email is becoming a legal issue due to the Enron-type accounting scandals. And so email regarding official matters must be archived or retained for a set number of years. Therein lies the problem. How exactly can you pinpoint which emails are related to official matters and archive only those emails?. Many times the answer is that you cannot. Therefore, archiving everything is required. Archiving increases the requirement ...

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