Corporate information technology departments have ad-hoc email retention policies that...
Corporate information technology departments have ad-hoc email retention policies that may place their companies at risk for legal and compliance issues, said a study by Mimecast, which provides cloud-based email management (http://xrl.us/bnsmv6). It consisted of interviews with 500 IT decision…
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makers -- 200 in the U.S., 200 in the U.K. and 100 in South Africa -- this summer, the company said in a release. Forty-one percent of U.S. companies lack companywide email retention policies that meet industry standards and regulations, the release said, making it difficult to locate emails for e-discovery requests and determine if those companies comply with regulations. Mimecast Account Director Legal Eliza Hedegaard said these IT departments should be “adopting a more rigorous approach to email archiving” but are burdened “by a regulatory system that is incredibly confusing and difficult to navigate.” This can be fixed if regulators started “simplifying the regulatory framework and putting greater emphasis on clearly communicating what organizations need to do in order to comply instead of adopting scare tactics that focus on what will happen if organizations fall foul of the rules,” she said.