If you had to go to court to share email evidence, would you feel confident that the your electronic data would hold up? A study done in the UK reported that nearly half (44%) could not prove whether their email had been changed or tampered with. Over a third (35%) simply did not know whether any changes had occurred to their email. If you have been in tech support half as long as I have, you know that anything can be hacked, and email is one of the easiest sources to meddle with.
With organizations in the utility and similar industries, nearly half (43%) of the
respondents said that they did not know whether they could rely on the integrity of their emails. This is likely to indicate that in fact they cannot prove that an email is 'original'; measures need to be taken in order to ensure that emails can be used as proof in a legal dispute and hence in all likelihood 'don't know' means that these organizations do not have a suitable strategy in place.
This survey was commissioned by Forensic & Compliance Systems - maker of the Cryoserver email archiving and compliance appliance. If your company is concerned about email integrity, you may want to check them out.
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