1) First check with your auditors to find out what your document retention requirements are. Likely, your HR department will have a 7 year, accounts payable/receivable may have the same (or not), etc 2) Then check with legal to see if a printed copy of all relevant email satisfies your document retention requirements. If so, then HR should implement a policy to require printing 'emails of official record' so that your email server backups are NOT the official record. Otherwise you may find yourself with a 7 year tape/backup retention which can be a real bitch considering how fast technology standards evolve and change, not to mention the cost of, and storeage of the media
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:04 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected] > wrote: > What's the standard for email retention for companies which are NOT > publicly > traded? What's the SOX rules on email retention? I just helped one of our > managers open some Outlook data files dating back to 2007 which got me > thinking about the wisdom of retaining information that long and I wasn't > sure what the "norm" is for retaining that info. > > Thanks... > > Thanks, > John Aldrich > IT Manager, > Blueridge Carpet > 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
