Most of us hop between several computers, melding our personal and professional lives while managing email accounts and living our lives. The recent Boston City Hall email turmoil concerning lost email, highlights the multiple computer problem from a different angle: We now learn the individual at the center of this case used more than one computer at his office, and the local email archives are spread between two local C:/ drives. The specific details are still emerging, but what’s being reported now is the original computer was replaced with a new model and the original was “tucked away in a 6th floor office” all the while with a valuable email archive unsecured and unprotected.
The benefits of centralized archiving with authenticated and audited access are better than the open holes caused by allowing PST files to live on local drives and thus vulnerable to loss and “data leakage.”
Tags: ediscovery, email