Re: Email Policy Changes

[David Kovar <dkovar () gmail com>]

Greetings,

This policy is becoming standard in a lot of corporations. I think the  
powers that be have more market research for their point of view than  
you can drum up for yours.

-David

On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Craig Freyman wrote:

> I agree that the policy is very bad and Bugbear is 100% correct.  
> They don't understand the technology piece at all. However, we've  
> fought it HARD and lost. I'm going to bring all these points up  
> though, much thanks for your insight.
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jack Daniel <jackadaniel () gmail com>  
> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Bill Swearingen <hevnsnt@i- 
> hacked.com> wrote:
> > I dont understand why you wouldnt want to comply with policy?
> > The reason the lawyers have made this decision is because of  
> ediscovery.  If
> > their is a policy (and technical restraints) to not keep stuff  
> past 60 days,
> > then they cant be requested to discover email and documents older  
> than that.
> > Sounds like you are looking for a good way of being fired!
> > $0.02
> >
> Good point Bill, but I interpreted the request as trying to cover all
> the bases to help enforce the policy, and framed answers as such.
>
> That said, this is such a bad policy that it will be defeated.  People
> are going to do their jobs, in spite of policy- you are much more
> likely to be disciplined or fired for not doing your job than you are
> to be disciplined for not following policy (at least in almost every
> biz I've ever dealt with)
>
> This shows it isn't just us security types who ignore the realities of
> business when crafting policy. The dangers of e-discovery damage would
> have to be insanely high for this to be in the best interest of the
> company as a whole.  But, we security types ask for dumb stuff all the
> time, too.
>
> Jack
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