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POSTINI S MANAGED SERVICE APPROACH TO ARCHIVING

archival data and any duplicates of the data with

time-date stamps. Once the original archive date

is recorded, data life spans can be set to prevent

data from being before erased before its time limit.

The system also logs each data search and access

message request.

To ensure privacy, access controls are only set

by Postini engineers at the Postini data center at

the specific request of authorized, authenticated

company employees.

Powerful Indexing, Management and Search Tools

Because the key capability of an archival system is

its ability to retrieve specific threads of information

rapidly and accurately, Postini has developed

powerful yet easy-to-use data search and retrieval

capabilities. Authorized employees and third-party

personnel can search through archived records

rapidly and efficiently.

With Postini Personal Archive, all email and IM

can be indexed, archived, and retrieved based on

message content or by specific accounts or users.

Messages and attachments are indexed by date,

range, sender, recipient, subject, content, and

metadata, which is essential to both individual and

forensic discovery.

Disaster-Proof System

Postini has built a highly redundant and available

message archive system. To guard against any

single point of failure, all archived electronic

communications are archived and mirrored on RAID

protected disks in one Postini data center and

replicated at two separate remotely located data

Figure 2: Postini Archive Manager with Personal Archive