Quotes by Ed Golod

“Compliance mandates like Sarbanes-Oxley have thrown a wrench into many email security strategies. Its fine to wipe out worms and viruses. But thats not enough. If your email system leaks confidential financial information, or if you cant retrieve old emails when regulators knock on your door, your executives can wind up in legal trouble.”

“The email and storage markets are converging in the age of compliance. If you cant backup and recover your email messages quickly, you cant meet information retrieval deadlines from regulators or prosecutors.”

“Todays college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, its like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.”

“Thats a critical capability. If someone is promoted or demoted, their assigned rights to specific documents should change to reflect their increased or reduced responsibilities.”

“Just like email, instant messages can be used as evidence in a legal case. So it pays to make sure you have IM and P2P software under control in your IT environment.”