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The business risks of using personal email accounts

February 17, 2015 By Dave Hunt

A customer recently asked us a question that raises some interesting points when individuals use personal accounts such Hotmail or Yahoo for business-related emails: “When is it OK to use a personal email for business purposes?”

The short answer is never, but individual proprietors, consultants, can often revert to “personal” email accounts. The smart ones will set-up a secondary account that reflects their business or business name (virtually all service providers, i.e. folks like Verizon, Comcast, etc. include the ability to create several email accounts at no additional charge).

For larger businesses, the inherent risks along with general availability of mobile email should be enough to preclude using a personal email account for business purposes. If for example that user is out-of-the-office, they should be able to access their office mail from a smartphone or computer, and this is a far better route than simply resorting to their personal email account. [Read more…] about The business risks of using personal email accounts

Dave Hunt

Zombie Data … Draining life byte by byte

January 27, 2015 By Rich Turner

Scaring horror fans since the days of black and white, zombie movies have captivated audiences for years and we’re constantly bombarded with new movies, shows and video games featuring them. Whether you are a fan of this genre or not, the talk of the living dead has now spilled over into the tech world.

Your organization might have disaster recovery and a secure technical environment that’s protected against a zombie apocalypse, but is the threat already lurking hidden in your system? We don’t wish to alarm you but zombie data is real and chances are it’s taking up valuable resources and posing risks in your environment even as you read this post…

Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Do PST Files impact eDiscovery?

December 31, 2014 By Rich Turner

What is discoverable when it comes to investigations?

We fielded a recent customer question that made us take another look at what IT organizations need to consider when performing eDiscovery searches or responding to information queries such as Freedom of Information requests.

The question was initially surprising, but when we looked closer, it’s a reasonable one and an area where IT and Legal only intersect when there are problems.

What is ESI?

The term ESI is regularly used in the legal community and is an acronym for Electronically Stored Information – not simply electronically searchable information. The distinction is an important one.

Most legal processes were modelled around paper files – hence the term “discovery.” In 2006 the US judiciary finally addressed burgeoning electronic information discovery, or eDiscovery, by amending the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) to include electronic information. It should be noted that UK courts incorporated rules to handle electronic discovery some years earlier, but the legal community universally regards ESI as “anything stored via electronic means.”

An important distinction about ESI is that nobody, anywhere, has more granular descriptions on what it is, how it’s stored, etc. In fact, laws and acts and statutes that refer to ESI talk about “preserving” such data and leave the means of preservation up to the holders, i.e. the IT organization.

Rich Turner

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Taking back control of discovery

November 25, 2014 By Rich Turner

For any company who’s faced a discovery request – whether it is a public-facing organization with a Freedom of Information request, a business performing an internal investigation, or a company facing a regulatory challenge or eDiscovery request – fulfilling those requests in an efficient and cost-effective manner is a real challenge.

Whilst organizations can prepare ahead of time for discovery by implementing policies to retain information that is most likely to be subject to discovery requests, there is one key aspect that is vital.

Rich Turner

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

Discovery just got a whole lot easier

November 25, 2014 By Peter Mullens

Barracuda’s ArchiveOne product has been available for many years, giving organizations ownership and control over their email and file data, and allowing them to manage this information in‑place wherever it exists across the organization.

ArchiveOne has evolved continuously since the first version was introduced over ten years ago by C2C Systems, and following the recent acquisition of C2C by Barracuda Networks it has become the latest member of the Barracuda product family. It provides a comprehensive integrated Information Management solution that includes regulatory compliance and data retention as well as capacity management and eDiscovery.

The powerful policy-based approach used by ArchiveOne means that it can locate, discover and search unstructured data such as email in-place wherever it happens to be stored across the business. For instance, this can be in live mailboxes, in network locations or archives, or even in individual end user PST files, and unlike some other solutions there is no need to archive data first before it can be searched.

Peter Mullens