Perimeter E-Security Launches Cloud Compliance for Microsoft Office 365
Perimeter E-Security (whose speciality is listed right in its name) has launched its Compliance and Continuity Suite for Microsoft Office 365, bringing archiving and eDiscovery to Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite, no matter the size of the organization using it.
According to Perimeter, the need for this kind of solution is rising as compliance requirements are getting more stringent even as an average employee’s inbox balloons to 100 or more e-mails per day. Standards such as HIPAA and SEC require a searchable record of all those messages to be kept for a set amount of time.
Enter Perimeter’s new Office 365 compliance suite, which stores and indexes all messages that go into and come out of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud suite in its own storage infrastructure.
Here’s Perimeter’s own fact sheet on the new offering, as per the press release:
- Message mirroring, allowing 100 percent message availability through a web-based business continuity portal that allows users 24/7 access to their archives where they can send and receive emails in the event of an exchange outage.
- Tamper-proof storage that guarantees the integrity of message archives, essential for establishing chain of custody and complying with FRCP.
- User-friendly web-based interface that enables organizations to define their own complex, weighted policies for compliance monitoring. Administrators have 24/7 access to reports, policy configurations and role-based access control. Administrators and employees alike have 24/7 access to their own personal archives, plus others they have rights to.
- Parametric search to allow administrators, reviewers, counsel and employees the ability to quickly search archives based on message metadata, group membership, full-text or attachment contents and other parameters.
- Flexible message retention options governing the length of time messages are kept in the archive, which helps to minimize the risk of exposure and reduce archive expenses. These include support for multiple retention holds and role-based collections.
- Support for Electronic Discovery Reference Model functionality, notably the identification, collection and preservation of email and other critical information types.
In other words, it keeps your data safe and available in case of, say, an Office 365 outage, while also helping meet those compliance needs.
The Office 365 compliance suite is built on the same the technology that powers subsidiary USA.NET’s SaaS Secure Messaging 6.0, which mirrors Microsoft Exchange data in the cloud. And, just as with that offering, this has the potential to give Microsoft Office 365 resellers the ability to add a lot of value to their customer’s cloud deployments — just ask providers Bloomberg and Quest Software, both of which have similar offerings on the market.
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Some unique offerings through the message mirroring. We utilize a vendor for encryption and archiving currently but will definitely look into the E-Security offering with recent cloud “hiccups”.
Aldan Berrie
Director IT Solutions
superior solutions
Aldan,
Please let us know if you evaluate the solution and how it goes. Thanks.
-jp