In-Place Legal Hold

The legal imperatives to preserve information that may be relevant to a current or pending legal matter are significant. Since most corporate communications are emails, they make-up the bulk of eDiscovery requests but they can be stored across multiple servers, in public folders, or in PST files. While you could preserve the entire PST, you’d be storing massive amounts of irrelevant documents that would need to be culled at some stage. 
90% of all eDiscovery evidence refers to emails and with the metadata being proven to be of immense value, the need to find and preserve all this data across so many locations is at least demanding, and Legal Hold by itself is not enough. It is impractical for businesses to sequester current data that is being acted upon, and no single user can be expected to know where all potentially relevant files might be, and what to do with them, if and when they find them.
A practical solution to this is more elusive – known as 'In-Place Legal Hold'
The notion behind it is deceptively simple:  all potentially relevant documents regardless of location or state are simply found, copied and locked with all their metadata intact – into a secure repository. There is no user involvement, no concern about making current information inaccessible, and no worries about altered metadata.
The logical provider for an In-Place Legal Hold solution operates to the left of the EDRM workflow, (actively involved with archiving and storage). However, the majority of email archiving vendors mandate that data must be archived first before any action can take place.
C2C’s strategy is to provide a balance of discovery, retention and archiving through a policy (rules based) engine. It enables every email to be reviewed prior to action, checked to see if it meets any corporate policy and handled accordingly.
Data can be deleted without archiving first, or unarchived data can be placed on Legal Hold.
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