is your business compliant with legislation?
protect your business and directors from litigation with Safeserve
legal discovery request
Any organisation that has received a legal discovery request for
email knows the importance of timely extraction. In
the past this involved crawling through users' mailboxes,
rebuilding email servers from backup tapes, then hoping to find all the personal archives that might be stored on users'
workstations!
historical email recovery
Users tend to use the email system for their personal
electronic filing, as it is convenient and easy to find items.
But the cost of storing all this data becomes prohibitive, mail
files corrupted, backups take longer, resulting in pressure to reduce their storage requirements.
privacy requirements
- UK regulations, such as the Data Protection Act, the Companies Act,
and EC Directive 95/46, require companies to handle customers' personal
data with appropriate care.
- Industries such as financial services and healthcare are
required by law to protect email messages that contain sensitive client
information. In the US the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates that patient data travel through
secure channels.
- If you do business in Canada the regulations are even stricter.
the risks
If you are sending unsecured email, you are exposing your
and your clients' businesses to the following security holes:
Privacy invasionIt is very easy for anyone with
network access to read your email while it is in transit.
Message modification When you send an
email, it travels from your email server to another server. Anyone with basic IT knowledge
can open, read, and modify your email
content before delivery.
Identity theft Because unsecured email can be
intercepted in transit, it is very easy for thieves to steal your clients'
sensitive personal and financial information.