Re: E-Discovery of remote PST files

[Nick Lewis <lewisnic () ACM ORG>]

You could try one of the sensitive information finders (SSN, CCs, etc) that
support PSTs, allow you to search for custom strings, and use the name as a
custom string?

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Koontz" <dkoontz () MBC EDU>
To: <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: [SECURITY] E-Discovery of remote PST files


> All, our legal counsel are trying to comply with a legal request to turn
> over all email communication campus wide regarding an individual over the
> last couple years.  We do not archive messages, and the vast majority of
> our
> users pull their email via POP3 to Outlook where those messages are stored
> on their local PC.
>
> Are there any tools you can recommend to remotely scan users PST files for
> specific messages, and hopefully pull those messages out, or foward them
> off
> to the administrator?
>
> Obviously, we will have to come up with other methods for Mac users or
> those
> using different email clients, but the vast majority are Outlook users...
> so
> any help there would be greatly appreciated.  It will take forever to
> visit
> hundreds of PCs.