Law firm Ashurst is using a
hosted service to support its
disaster recovery strategy.
The company is using Mimecast's UK-hosted journaling service to
provide e-mail archiving for 2,000 users across 13 countries who
keep confidential e-mail data within the UK borders.
Paolo Picone, IT systems manager at Ashurst, said, "Some of our
clients work in regulated industries, and they stipulated that all
their data needed to be stored in the UK."
Ashurst has used the Mimecast e-mail archiving service to
provide a tamper-proof record of e-mail with a forensic data trail
of who has accessed or been copied in on e-mails as well as a
complete record of where and when they had been stored, Picone
said. "We know now that, should the need ever arise, our e-mail
data would stand up to scrutiny because Mimecast gives us strong
chains of custody."
The service provides customisation that has been used to enable
disclaimer notices on users' sent e-mail messages to be written in
their choice of language. Mimecast also links into the company's
Active Directory.
Picone said Ashurst has also deployed Mimecast's spam, content
and anti-virus filtering software. The Ashurst IT support team were
increasingly spending administration time simply reviewing the
ever-increasing amount of spam and false-positive e-mails sat
waiting for review in quarantine.
Picone estimated that managing e-mail was occupying one
full-time member of his team, not only in analysing e-mail
quarantines, but also in time spent on internal hardware
maintenance and upgrades. "Mimecast has eliminated the quarantine
issue for us as and the majority of spam is stopped before it can
enter the perimeter of our network," Picone said.