The Impact of Regulations on Email Archiving Requirements

摘要

Email has become the lifeblood of the modern enterprise: it has supplanted paper-based and verbal communications as the most critical single element of the corporate communications infrastructure.The vast majority of organizations now consider email a viable and trusted medium for taking orders, giving approvals, formalizing contracts, and discussing sensitive personnel issues. Consequently, the corporate email system now contains a great deal of sensitive information that once was stored only on paper. As dependence on email and its use have grown, so has the governmental and legal scrutiny regarding email. Email is now just as admissible in court, and just as critical for an enterprise to maintain, as are its paper-based records. Complicating the issue is the rapidly increasing volume of email communications and other information contained with the messaging infrastructure.