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Symantec Opens Vault Of Compliance Services
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2006-09-06
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Symantec unveiled its Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator 6.0 (EVDA), an extension of the company's Vault e-mail and file archiving software. The company says the product was updated for compliance with e-discovery requirements as dictated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). The new rules are scheduled to take effect in December.
EVDA 6.0 is a component of Symantec's Messaging Retention and Discovery program, which offers records retention, legal consulting services, searchable backup software, and open APIs.
"Organizations across all industries will have to revamp their e-discovery strategies to comply with the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," said Francis deSouza, vice president of Enterprise Messaging Management solutions, Symantec.
"IT departments need to prepare for strict requirements around the preservation of data prior to and during litigation mindful of the sanctions and fines that can result from poor procedures."
Under the FRCP, companies are required to preserve data during the course of litigation, commonly referred to as the legal hold requirement. Discovery Accelerator 6.0 offers automated legal holds, to ensure e-mails, instant messages, files and other content relevant to a specific case (or cases) are not deleted as part of an organization's standard records retention and deletion schedule.
Relevant data can be selected without holding the entire dataset. E-mail, IM, files, and other content can be reproduced in their native formats, also a requirement of the Federal Rules changes.
Litigation Readiness and Policy Consulting
Symantec's Messaging Retention and Discovery program also includes a strategic relationship with the law firm Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP, a firm specializing in reducing the legal risk and cost of e-discovery and e-records compliance. Symantec customers can receive guidance on developing a litigation response strategy, including a practical and legally defensible legal hold process, a legacy media review process, and enterprise record retention policies and procedures.
"Organizations face tremendous risk and cost in dealing with electronic records in litigation and regulatory investigations," according to M. James Daley, one of the founding partners of Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP.
"Now, more than ever, they need a legally defensible legal hold process and reasonable record retention policy to comply with legal obligations, including the new federal e-discovery rules."
Historical Data Recovery and Migration
Symantec has also partnered with RenewData (www.renewdata.com), a provider of information governance software and electronic evidence services. RenewData takes historical data off backup tapes and legacy e-mail archives and migrates that data into the Enterprise Vault archive.
E-Discovery Partner Program
Symantec also launched its E-Discovery Partner Program to provide APIs for Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator to third-party legal software and e-mail analysis vendors. Customers whose inside or outside counsel use these tools will be able to pass data from Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator to their preferred tools.
According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, an IT analyst firm, of those organizations that have been through an electronic discovery in the past 12 months, more than 75 percent have been forced to produce e-mail as part of the discovery process.
"E-mail can be a treasure chest of evidence and organizations still struggle to manage it during the discovery process," said Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group.
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