Show me a search of a full text index that can positively give you 100% of the hits on a given topic and I'll let you have this one :)  Manual review is necessary to verify, and chances are you would need to manually review every E-mail going to and from specific employees across a range of dates.  A good law firm would do the review themselves before passing on the material to the regulators instead of relying on some tech to identify the subject matter by way of keyword.

And no, I've never dealt with SOX compliance, but I was involved in a case where I had to produce over 700 E-mails between myself and employees of another company.  That wasn't fun.  It was easy to identify the messages, but very time consuming to do the review.

Matt



Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Each company is different and therefore so are their needs.
    

Okay, but _Rick's_ needs are SOX compliance. I don't have any interest
in  discussing  general archiving methods; to each his/her own in that
effort.

  
Many  that archive will never need to go through the data, primarily
because  many  companies aren't so enormous that they have the legal
liability  nor  the  volume  that  would  necessitate  a  preemptive
indexing of content.
    

I do not believe you are speaking from experience.

  
I  would  consider  it  to be unrealistic to demand that a full text
indexing be done of file attachments. . .
    

That's nice, but it's not your choice. Regulators demand prompt, often
overnight,  responses  to  search  requests (sometimes many concurrent
requests).  Do  not  think  for  a minute that "unrealistic" is the IT
staff's trump card against compliance.

This  is  not  as  simple  as  you think it is, but that's understable
because  you've  evidently  never  been  under the gun of a SOX or SEC
investigation.  Three  of  our  clients  have  been through the latter
(cleared,  I  might  add,  but now with double the liability insurance
premium,  probably  forever). Two of these companies have less than 50
employees, and one has four full-timers.

--Sandy


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