Email Retention Policies
Many companies have little to no email retention policies in place. The idea here is to ensure that if a business related email is required, it can be recovered for up to a 6 year period. However it has also been raised that 6 years may not actually be sufficient when projects which are completed over a long period of time are concerned. Therefore 6 yrs from time of project completion should be the consideration. In some cases financial data may need a slightly longer period of retention to match other financial requirements. The question is how do you manage this type of thing. Users have the ability to delete their emails etc and therefore relying on users to manage their own mailboxes completely may not be the best option. Many companies opt for an email archiving solution which provides a copy of every email in and out to be stored safely and all access to these stored messages audited for compliance. With the adoption of cloud email services this retention can present