There is no need for any regulatory or industry compliance statute to mandate *the specifics of* a set retention policy for information.
Yeah, there is the standard for financial data, but even that can be 3 years, 7 years or 10 years depending on the specifics of the data or segment of the industry. And, those are minimums (although few people are willing to go over the minimums when it comes to retention, due to the liability). It is best to have the legal folks establish a policy, and then use whatever technology is available to enforce it. These things are very much business dependent. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Malcolm Reitz <malcolm.re...@live.com>wrote: > Annoyingly enough, SOX doesn't specify any retention period. However, it > does implicitly require a formalized and structured retention policy to be > applied. Of course, SOX doesn't apply to non-publicly-traded companies > anyway. > > Even without SOX or other regulatory requirements, a retention policy based > on what information is useful to your company, is a good thing to implement > anyway. > > -Malcolm > -----Original Message----- > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 09:05 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Email retention > > 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
