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Go Team Register!
*shakes pom-poms*
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 …
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.
"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