E-discovery & Compliance

Proactive litigation readiness and compliance with GDPR, FOIA, SOX or other industry specific regulations like HIPAA, mean your approach to archiving needs to be a comprehensive and defensible one.  Mimecast offers the industry’s leading solution to mitigate risk, maintain security controls and improve visibility over email and other data.

According to Gartner, E-discovery readiness is an initiative that spans legal, IT and business stakeholder concerns and can also unify and align with archiving and data management strategies.  To reduce risk and exposure, an E-discovery plan should be proactive and holistic instead of reactive and time pressured.

This newsletter, “Strengthen E-Discovery Readiness to Reduce Cost and Risk” features Gartner research and offers guidance on the considerations for and E-discovery action plan, such as retention schedules, access rights, privacy concerns and security controls.

e-Discovery remains a top driver for investment in archiving technologies. The need to reduce legal cost and risk is growing. But meeting e-discovery and compliance demands quickly and defensibly is difficult for most organizations.

This short Q & A, “Preparing for Tomorrow’s Archive?” features Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Cheryl McKinnon and will help you understand the key features you should look for when planning your litigation readiness strategy.

Information management is getting harder. Organizations face increasing data volumes, more stringent legal and regulatory record-keeping requirements, stricter privacy rules, increasing threat of breaches and decreasing employee productivity.  Companies are also finding that their old-fashioned, legacy archive strategies are increasingly ineffective. This is driving many organizations to rethink their approach, developing more modern Information Governance strategies.