5 Steps for E-Mail Retention
The first five steps you should take to enact an e-mail archiving and retention plan.
The wrong time to enact an e-mail archiving and retention plan is after your company gets audited or sued. The best way to protect your company, of course, is by developing a plan for managing and legally deleting your data before something happens. For companies just starting to look at their e-mail data retention policies, here are five steps to follow:
1. Catalog your company’s data and create a list of which backup tapes are at which storage site, says Todd Stefan, principal at Setec Investigations, a computer forensics firm in Los Angeles. Knowing where to find archives will save time when discovery deadlines loom, and you’ll be able to tell a judge truthfully that you produced all the relevant data you could.
