Poor email archiving effort at Apple
Monday, November 24, 2008
A recent antitrust case between Psystar and Apple has revealed the poor security standards of the latter's email archiving policies, it has been claimed.
Ian Lamont, an email security expert at the Industry Standard, has noted that court records from the case show that the firm has no enterprise-wide policy for email archiving, storage or deletion.
"This could potentially run afoul of e-discovery requirements, which have tripped up other companies that have been unable to produce emails and other electronic files in court," Slashdot quotes him as saying.
A lawyer who was not attached to the case described Apple's email archiving strategies as negligent.
The discovery had little bearing on the verdict of the case, which was dismissed earlier this week.
In other developments, Quantum Marine Engineering has recently advised in an IT World article that those looking to deploy email archiving should educate users thoroughly on how to comply with the company's message retention policy.
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