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As email has
become ubiquitous in every organization, many new email and internet
challenges are being driven by changes in legislation and regulations.
Some of the most common areas affect archive/retrieval, security and
auditability and
include: LEGAL DISCOVERY - A recent report
suggests that complying with broad electronic discovery requests may
be extremely costly for an organization, yet less than 20% of companies
have a policy on how to handle such requests. Archive One,
Archive Attender, Clearwell
& Titus
Classification address this issue by providing
separated, long term email archiving capabilities
that allow simple retrieval of archived email sourced from current
mailboxes as well as backup tapes. Alternatively, Discovery
Attender & Mail
Attender provide the
ability to search through the current in-situ Domino and Exchange
mailboxes as well as PST files and file servers.
HIPAA -
privacy laws affect secure management of patient information and
auditable archives within and
between hospitals, pharmacies, physicians and pharmaceutical companies.
These organizations should review products such as our
Email Security solutions for encrypting email,, Archive One,
Archive Attender & Titus
Classification for email archiving and Akonix
for archiving and filtering Instant Messaging traffic. Organizations with shared workstation or
kiosk access to email should consider our OWA tools
allowing a user to view an
OWA attachment without saving to the local workstation and ensuring the
user has fully logged off the OWA session. GLB/CA1798 - the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley and California
Security Breach Information Acts introduce privacy laws that affect many
organizations. Affected organizations should review products such as our
Email Security solutions for encrypting email, MAILsweeper
and MIMEsweeper-for-Web
for preventing confidential information from leaving the organization
through webmail or internal email, Akonix L7
for preventing information leaving via Instant Messaging.
SEC/NASD -
Securities regulations require broker related email to be inspected and
archived for several years to meet strict compliance guidelines. Archive One,
Archive Attender & Titus
Classification support the email archiving & classification requirements extensively while
Akonix
supports Instant Messaging. MAILsweeper
and MIMEsweeper-for-Web
maintain internal chinese walls by filtering at delivery time to help prevent potentially damaging documents being
delivered to the wrong people.
Sarbanes Oxley/Bill 198
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) and its equivalent, Bill 198 in Canada, is the single most important piece of
legislation affecting corporate governance, financial disclosure and the
practice of public accounting since the US securities laws of the early
1930s. Rule
802 covers record retention. Archive One,
Archive Attender & Titus
Classification support the email archiving & classification requirements while Akonix
supports the archiving of Instant Messaging. MAILsweeper
and MIMEsweeper-for-Web
maintain organizational walls by filtering at delivery time to help prevent potentially damaging documents being
delivered to the wrong people.
FOIA/FISMA
For United States Federal, State & Local Government, the
Freedom of Information Act requires that federal agencies disclose their
records to anyone making a written request. The speed and economy of
email often makes it the preferred means of delivery, carrying risks
that the wrong information might be sent or the wrong recipient
addressed. Because email has become so prevalent for interdepartmental
communications, security of communications has become a serious concern.
Similarly, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) places the onus
squarely on agencies and their partners to develop information security
risk assessments and mitigation strategies. As part of FISMA compliance,
agencies and departments should implement ways to track the contents of
all outgoing emails. Archive One,
Archive Attender & Titus
Classification support the email archiving & classification requirements while
Akonix
supports the management of Instant Messaging. Discovery
Attender, Mail
Attender & Active Folders provide the
ability to search through the current in-situ Domino and Exchange
mailboxes as well as PST files and file servers. Pharmaceuticals/FDA
- drug
development information shared between drug companies and the FDA needs
to be passed in a secure and trusted manner. Our Secure
EMail Solutions provide PKI secure email inspection & document exchange. MAILsweeper
filters at delivery time to help prevent documents being
delivered that have not been encrypted.
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