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Email retention...is it easier to delete important information and pay fines than it is to figure out how to control the content people put within email messages?

There continues to be more news made about businesses and their email retention practices.  Today it was reported that Morgan Stanley proposed paying a $15 million dollar fine as a result of the firm not appropriately or adequately retaining emails.  Other fines have been in the news as well.  Considering the hugely expanding amount of email messages being sent and used each day for business...do we all really need a darned Blackberry with us 24/7?...companies really do need to re-examine their policies regarding the use of email for business.  It could result in huge fines or even jail time, depending upon the information personnel put within the messages, if it is not properly addressed.

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Rebecca Herold's Bio:

Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.