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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?”

risks to your businessThe 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

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Information Management, Information Governance, email archiving, Barracuda Total Threat Protection, ediscovery, FOIA, Barracuda Data Protection Plus, policy-based archiving, journal archiving, email compliance, email policies, archiving policies, total threat protection

5 benefits of policy-based retention

January 27, 2015 by Peter Mullens

Archiving and policy-based retention are not new technologies, although the companies that offer these have provided substantially enhanced products over the years; so much so that today’s solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements.  As companies worry more about big data, ediscovery and why they’re saving data, the additional benefits of policy-based retention become more apparent.

Why do companies archive email data?file retrieval

First generation archiving products served a simple purpose: overcome the limitations of mailbox quotas in Exchange and the high cost of disk storage.

Archiving solutions provided some level of retrieval, but were more focused on getting email off mail servers and onto lower-cost secondary storage.  For some companies, this was enough, and sufficiently cost-effective that they simply archived everything into seemingly perpetual storage.

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Peter Mullens

Filed Under: Network and Application Security, Email Protection, Barracuda Tagged With: Data Protection and Recovery, Information Management, Information Governance, email archiving, email lifecycle management, email retention, Barracuda Data Protection Plus, Information management systems, email deletion, defensible deletion, unwanted data, irrelevant data, policy-based archiving, policy-based retention.

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