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Does IT Have to Worry about Compliance? (You Bet)

IT bears a big responsibility for corporate compliance. Managing retention, keeping data available, and checking messaging for compliance all fall under IT's domain.
Christine Taylor
June 16, 2009

"Compliance" is a seriously big topic.

  • It crosses electronic and paper lines.
  • It can refer to government regulations, industry
    requirements, or internal governance.
  • It refers to employee-driven processes as well as records
    retention.
  • Requirements differ radically in highly regulated
    industries like finance, and healthcare

 

Even where we narrow compliance to IT and electronically stored
information (ESI), it's still complex. Compliance doesn't just impact email; it also concerns database records, unstructured archives, and storage systems galore.

I see IT's compliance responsibility in 3 broad areas:

  1. Manage retention periods.
  2. Ensure data availability for searches.
  3. Deploy compliance checking for outgoing data.

 

Manage retention periods

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