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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
E-mail archiving compliance is not solved by technology alone. It merges information technology issues, legal issues, business issues and records management issues that can briefly be summarised as follows:[private]
Information technology issues: The use of technology solutions to help manage e-mail;
Legal issues: Understanding which laws impact on the way that information ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The current best practices include:
SANS 15489 (the South African Records Management Standard): This standard on recordkeeping provides guidance on "[t]he standardization of records management policies and procedures," and is designed to ensure "that appropriate attention and protection is given to all records ...".
SABS ISO/IEC17799 (edition one), "Information technology - Code ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
EMAIL "USAGE" VERSUS EMAIL "MANAGEMENT"
Email has become the life-blood of most companies. Consequently company emails now contain a great deal of sensitive information that was once only stored on paper.
There is a difference between email USAGE and email MANAGEMENT.
Companies can be exposed to claims for vicarious liability if employees do ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
E-mail archiving is often confused with backups. The primary goal of backing up is the preservation of server-based data to protect against data loss from server related problems, whereas the primary goal of e-mail archiving is to protect records which the law, the company or best practice requires be retained.
There ...
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2002
Read the chapter on this topic authored by Lance Michalson in "Cyberlaw: The Law of the Internet" (1st edition), available online at http://www.cyberlawsa.co.za/cyberlaw/cybertext/chapter7.htm.
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