LONDON, UK - The recent scandal involving the "News of the World" newspaper has demonstrated not only the need to prevent phone hacking, but also the need to store emails securely. 
Staff members at News International, NoW's parent company, are accused of having deleted incriminating emails, something they could not have accomplished if they had used Cryoserver's email archive solution.

Recently Scotland Yard has investigatED how NoW staff hacked into voicemails of members of the royal family, a former prime minister and many ordinary citizens who were related to victims of terrorism and other crimes. Staff members have been arrested, and the owner of NoW has closed the newspaper permanently.

But the scandal is not confined to phone hacking; it also involves members of NI's staff deleting millions of emails from an Internet archive that would have helped investigators piece together the dimensions of the newspaper's illegal activities. The email archiving solution in question is a database driven solution. A database driven archiving solution leaves the end user access to the database and therefore the ability to delete records very easily. Cryoserver stores emails in a "read only" format, meaning an email can never be deleted once it is in the repository.

NoW staff allegedly deleted the emails in January after Scotland Yard started investigating the phone hacking charges.  Police are also investigating whether NoW staff changed the company's email retention policy as a way of evading police detection of their illegal activities. Scotland Yard investigators believe they may be able to retrieve some of the deleted emails, but it will be painstaking work.
 
"This scandal demonstrates the dangers behind failing to have adequate email archiving systems," observes Robin Bingeman of Cryoserver.  "If NI had been using Cryoserver, it would not have been possible to delete the emails and the forensic record would be intact. Now it will take investigators hundreds of hours of work to reconstruct what happened."

Our email compliance solution automatically stores every email into or out of an organization and secures them in a tamper-proof repository. Cryoserver can take the form of an appliance, software or as hosted service "in the cloud." Once the emails are in the repository, employees cannot alter or delete them, we can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the archive is a direct representation of all emails which have been sent or received. Our robust email forensics solution will help your organization comply with applicable regulations and any e-discovery requirements.  

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