Understanding Compliance

The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service provides everything an organization needs to comply with government regulations in a cloud solution. The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service stores and indexes all email for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors. Backed by Energize Updates, delivered by Barracuda Central, the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service receives automatic updates to its extensive library of virus and policy definitions to enable enhanced monitoring of compliance and corporate guidelines as well as document file format updates needed to decode content within email attachments.

The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service features an easy-to-use web user interface, creating an intuitive and cost-effective administration tool for the Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. The web user interface allows administrators to define, manage, and control corporate archiving settings and rules from a central location.

The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service provides:

• Litigation Support

• Storage Management

• Knowledge Management

• Compliance

• Regulatory Compliance

Litigation Support

Litigation discovery involves all parties in a lawsuit and requires that all data or information relevant to the lawsuit be provided as requested by the court of law. All email is stored and indexed for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors.

Storage Management

Not only does the volume of email messages continue to increase, the size of the average email itself is also on the rise. Due to the increased use of file attachments in email messages, the average email size can range between 22KB and 350KB. As such, the ability for an organization to adequately keep up with the storage demands of email can be costly. While storage solutions can be used to deal with the problem of email message growth in the short term, the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service provides a more resourceful way of handling the issue over a longer period of time.

Knowledge Management

A company’s email system contains a vast amount of vital corporate intelligence, some of which is not replicated in any other data or material. If email is lost or is not easily accessible, a company runs the risk of losing that intelligence. The Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service provides management tools essential to storing and controlling access to an organization's knowledge base.

Compliance

Compliance issues are perhaps the driving force behind the increase in demand for an email archiving solution. The sheer number of regulations requiring some form of email retention, as well as the more specific parameters of how the email should be stored and for how long, can be confusing for administrators.

Although many regulations exist and have varying requirements, compliance is based on three concepts:

• Email permanence – Email must be maintained in its original form without alteration or deletion

• Email security – Information must be protected against all threats including unauthorized access to the email as well as physical damage. This same concept applies to the process of legal discovery which often specifies who can access the email (i.e., legal teams) as well as safeguards against the destruction of hard copies of the data

• Auditability – Email must be easily accessible in a timely fashion by authorized personnel upon request

The following table summarizes some of the key government regulations, and indicates how the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, using a sophisticated set of logging, auditing, and management capabilities, can help organizations achieve compliance.

Regulatory Compliance