Accounting scandals and business impropriety of recent years have led to a broad array of legislative and litigious requirements dictating how electronic records are retained and retrieved. Email regulatory compliance requirements include portions of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA), Securities and Exchange Commission Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4, the US Department of Defense 501 5.2 Standard, and the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act. Failure to meet these email regulatory requirements of the minimum data retention periods creates substantial liability for organizations, including large fines and, in some cases, prison sentences.

 
Hand-in-hand with regulatory compliance requirements is the need to preserve electronic records for purposes of legal discovery. From common lawsuits to class actions, email is increasingly being relied upon as critical evidence and failing to produce messages under discovery exposes corporations to significant litigious risk.

FrontBridge Message Compliance Services assist regulated and non-regulated companies with the complicated tasks of retaining, retrieving and reporting on electronic communications. For regulated companies, FrontBridge Message Compliance services provide a searchable, indexed archive of email and instant messaging for immediate monitoring, search and retrieval. For non-regulated companies, the searchable, indexed archive is essential for retrieving messages required in legal discovery cases.

Message Archive - FrontBridge Message Archive provides complete, secure and compliant email and instant message archiving, delivered with the advantages and simplicity of a managed services. The interception-based system captures, archives and indexes communications for immediate monitoring, search and retrieval for compliance and e-discovery. Message archive is compatible with widely used email platforms such as Microsoft Exchange.