To delete or archive email is a question that bothers many organizations, especially the ones that do not have a lot of experience with stringent laws that dictate the need to preserve all business records. This blog post is a good place to start if you’ve never archived email before and are not sure whether […]
The 2021 Quick Guide to SOX Compliance and Email Archiving
When it was enacted in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (often abbreviated to Sarbox or SOX) was a landmark piece of legislation that heralded many changes to how businesses operate and preserve files. This federal law set new, broader requirements for all public companies in the United States, but included a number of provisions that apply […]
FINRA Email Archiving: How to Ensure Compliance and Retain Records in Line with SEC 17a-4
There are two key bodies that oversee the compliance of financial institutions in terms of how they preserve and manage business records: FINRA and SEC. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a non-profit organization which, authorized by the US Congress, controls the operations and enforces rules that govern the activities by organizations operating in […]
What to Look for in a Cloud Email Archiving Solution in 2021
Email archiving solutions can be deployed in several different ways. After the short-lived, complex software solutions of the early 2000s, the predominant models were archiving appliances, better known as on-premise archiving solutions. Although on-prem archives still have their loyal supporters, the email archiving industry has changed profoundly with the advance of cloud technology. In this […]
Ediscovery and Email Archiving in 2021: Is Your Organization Ready?
Electronic discovery, better known as ediscovery, is the process in which any electronically stored information (ESI) is requested, searched, located and produced with the intent of using it in a court case as evidence, for government investigations, or as part of a Freedom of Information Act/Open Data requests. Here’s what a typical ediscovery process looks […]
All You Need to Know About Email Compliance
Most business owners today are aware of certain responsibilities they have for email archiving under compliance legislation, but aren’t sure what the point of email compliance is or how to ensure it. This blog post is a good starting point if you want to learn more about regulatory compliant email management. We’ll look at: what […]
How Automated Archiving Will Make Your IT Team’s Life Easier
As Tom Peters once said, “almost all quality improvement comes through the simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processing and procedures”. In automated archiving, the essence of automation is to increase efficiency, simplify email management procedures and improve both speed and accuracy. “Set it and forget it” is the golden principle of automation that is also […]
Email Retention Policy Best Practices for This Year
Having an email retention policy is important for a number of reasons – the major two being the need to save space on your email server and the need to stay in line with federal and industry record-keeping regulations. Defining how long your company will keep email communication can prove more challenging than you initially […]
5 Smarsh Alternatives to Try in 2021
Smarsh is a household name in the data archiving industry, providing archiving, compliance and information management services to the financial industry and government sector. And in 2020, it was named leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving for the sixth consecutive year. However, despite its cited completeness of vision, Smarsh doesn’t work […]
Email and Social Media in Employee Investigation & HR Ediscovery
Since most organizations implement email and social media archiving solutions to automate regulatory compliance and speed up open data request response times, they often forget the crucial component that is entwined with all the reasons behind archiving ‒ the human factor. Employee investigation can be the result of various HR-related scenarios that require the HR […]
