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Why Morgan Stanley had to pay that $15m email fine

And so to Reg Whitepapers to fossick this week for security nuggets. We struck a couple of good ones. Email as Evidence In 2006 Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $15m fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission for repeatedly failing to produce emails during the course of investigations. Oh dear. This whitepaper, commissioned …

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Martin Lyne

:P

Go Team Register!

*shakes pom-poms*

Anonymous Coward
Dead Vulture

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Reg Whitepapers - sounds like a gnarled old hack if ever I heard one.

Looking forward to your latest recruit's columns!

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Bobbins

(a) this is the dullest topic in the history of mankind, including accounting.

(b) $15M dollars? Peanuts for Morgan Stanley, and much cheaper than all of that expensive hardware to solve the problem.

Anonymous Coward
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@AC

a) Email archiving and storage is fantastically complex on a large email estate, particularly with multiple datacentres SANs etc, it is therefore pretty interesting.

b) I'm currently working on an Email Archiving system's storage for a large UK bank, we're archiving 160k Exchange mailboxes at a transaction level and storing them on Centerra for seven years. We're spending significantly less than $15M (assuming that $15M=£7.5M) and that includes software, servers, DMX arrays, Centerra, backup systems and all of this duplicated realtime across Prod and DR sites.

theotherone
Jobs Horns

and you buy that

"organizations that archive email in a "fractured" environment risk losing control and may struggle to produce evidential-quality email evidence." and you buy that instead of "management would rather pay 15 million of shareholder money than go to jail, which is why they destroyed the evidence"? ..... heh

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