Data Centre locations for GDPR
Hi, For the purposes of GDPR we need to state where our data is held. Cloud Vault Enterprise emails are obviously held somewhere, the Netherlands perhaps, or somewhere else in Europe as we are in the UK, but I have not found any info on the Veritas website at all stating where. Would anyone know where I can access this information? Thanks.eDiscovery Platform 9.0 General Availability
Hello Everybody, I am excited and proud to announce the General Availability of eDiscovery Platform 9.0 as of December 22, 2017. This is a major release that incorporates many significant feature, product and security enhancements, improvements and fixes. With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) as the primary theme around this release, new features for data classification, improved performance, resiliency, scalability and workflow have been added to enhance the eDiscovery experience. Some of the highlights of the release include the following: Information Classification Starting with version 9.0, the eDiscovery Platform lets you automatically classify sensitive and critical case data based on a set of built-in and custom policies. Note: The Information Classification feature can only be enabled for cases created in version 9.0 and later. Cases created before version 9.0 are not supported. The platform integrates with Veritas Information Classifier (VIC) to analyze and classify eDiscovery data. VIC uses both predefined and user-defined policies to assign classification tags to your eDiscovery data during the processing phase. Once these tags have been applied,users can view pre-selected classification filters (system tags) in the Analysis and Review mode to quickly identify documents that match the VIC tags. Bulk Redaction and Delete Bulk Redaction Bulk redaction provides the ability to redact multiple documents in a Redaction Set without having to individually open and review each and every document in the Native Viewer. You can easily specify the redaction text along with the reason code that needs to be applied on theredacted text to all selected documents. Bulk redaction works on redaction sets with preset reason codes and with free-text reason codes. The delete bulk redaction option makes it easy to delete all redactions and annotations for a set of documents in a redaction set. Redaction sets with preset reason codes Currently, case reviewers can add free text as a reason for redaction while redacting a document. New functionality is available so the Case Administrator can define preset reason codes. Reviewers will then be able to redact documents by applying reason codes consistently. The Case Administrator can create redaction sets with either predefined reason codes or free text reason codes. Case reviewers can apply the preset reason codes to redaction markups. Case reviewers can search, filter, or export documents based on the preset reason codes. Annotations in review mode In addition to the existing capability to redact a document, this release adds the ability to annotate a document in review mode. Case reviewers can annotate a document by adding comments or graphical stamps, or strike out some text. Case reviewers are also allowed to delete annotations. Case reviewers can also search the document for the Redacted Tag. Once annotated, the document can be reviewed by another reviewer, who can also add annotations. Case Backup Integrity During an eDiscovery Platform backup, empty directories may be created in the backup structure. If a case backup directory is then moved and empty directories are not copied, a restore job will subsequently fail. With this release, restore job for a case backup with empty directories does not fail. With the Case Backup Integrity feature, a checksum of the case backup directory is created during both the backup and the restore job. The checksum file created during the restore job is compared with the checksum file created during the backup job. If any empty directory is identified, then these empty directories are created at their specific paths during restore. This results in the success of the restore jobs. Automatically convert OST to PST Data Files for processing The eDiscovery Platform can now seamlessly convert OST files to PST files for processing. OST data files are converted to PST data files during the discovery phase. Upon successful completion of this operation, normal PST processing is applied to the files for easy access,review, and analysis. See technical article for details: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000128050 Integrated Windows Authentication Single Sign-On for Legal Hold Veritas eDiscovery Platform supports Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Single Sign-On (SSO) for Legal Hold authentication. When IWA SSO is configured, the logged-in Windows credentials of the custodian are used for authentication, and the custodian is subsequently directed to the Legal Hold Confirmation page without the need to enter login credentials. To use the SSO option, LDAP must be configured and enabled against the Active Directory domain from which Windows users will be authenticating. See technical article for details:https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000128049 Office® 365 connection using MAPI/HTTP Microsoft deprecated support for RPC over HTTP on October 31st 2017. With this release, the Veritas eDiscovery Platform will now use MAPI/HTTP to connect to Office 365 in support of this change. The eDiscovery Platform 9.0 installer automatically installs the KB3114941 updates for Outlook 2013 32-Bit Edition that enables the MAPI/HTTP protocol required to collect data from Office® 365 mailboxes. See the 9.0 Identification and Collection Guide for details and troubleshooting steps. Refer eDiscovery Platform 9.0 Release documentation as follows: Late Breaking News for eDiscovery Platform 9.0 http://www.veritas.com/docs/100041303 New Features Overview 9.0 https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/edp90_NFO_guide_v1_v90_00 Veritas eDiscovery Platform 9.0 Release Notes https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/edp90_release_notes_v1_v90_00 eDiscovery Platform 9.0 - Documentation http://www.veritas.com/docs/100040616 As with any upgrade, please first refer tothe upgrade support documents: Supported upgrade paths for eDiscovery Platform http://www.veritas.com/docs/000095769 eDiscovery Platform Compatibility Matrix 9.0 http://www.veritas.com/docs/000019811Does GDPR Make Me Go Tapeless?
So, let me guess … your manager just asked you whether you can delete someone’s personal data from your backup copies if he or she were to ask you following a ‘right to be forgotten’ request, right? Oh yes, and you are one of the 49% of organizations that are still using backup tapes as part of the backup and recovery strategy. Nothing wrong with that, but you'll quickly realize that in order to delete someone’s personal data, you first must find his or her data and that can prove an almost impossible task, especially when you are using backup tapes to store yourbackup copies. You may very well have hundreds if not thousands of backup tapes, some you keep onsite in a fireproof safe, but most are safely kept offsite in your disaster recovery location. The target file (or files) that you have beenasked to delete can be on any of these backup tapes. So … how do you find the backup tape that stores your target file? Now … your files aren’t actually individually copied to your backup tapes. Your backup tapes store backup images and each image may contain multiple files. This means that you first must identify the backup image that contains your target file before you can determine which backup tape you must retrieve. Next … how do you delete your target file from the backup tape? Unfortunately, you cannot selectively destroy a backup image on a backup tape. You have to destroy everything else on that backup tape too. This doesn’t sound a viable approach – at least not to me. You may end up having first to duplicate out all the other backup images from the backup tape except for the backup image that contains the target file, and then perform (long) erasure of the backup tape. And – adding some more time consuming joy - if the backup image also contains other files that must be kept, then you first need to restore that backup image, delete the file, and then backup the rest again. Finally … depending on your data retention policies you are likely to have to repeat these steps for several more backup tapes. I can feel your pain … The good news is that you have just under two-years left to go 'tapeless'. By the 25th May 2018 your company must be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – of course subject to your company trading in or with the European Union. Article 17 of this new regulation addresses the ‘right to erasure’ (or ‘right to be forgotten’), which I believewill impact almost every company in the world. Going 'tapeless' is easier than you may think … Veritas successfullyhelps thousands ofcompanies with their transition from a tape-based approachto a disk-based one, as their tape-systems areno longer fit for purpose. For example: companies thatare unable to backup the increasing volume of their data within the backup windows. These companies are reporting an increasing number of backup errors or spending an increasing amount of time and money on just keeping the tape system running. To solve this problem, they must redesign their backup to make the backup process reliable, scalable, fast, resilient and cost-effective again. These companies choose the Veritas NetBackup Appliances to replace their tape-based systems. I see them often deploy the NetBackup Appliances in phases; starting with small or new sites, helping them gain experience before implementing the Veritas NetBackup Appliances company wide, which at that point is an easy, straightforward task. The benefits they feedback to me are remarkable and include: Reduced tape costs for management, transportation and storage Boost in backup performance ensures that backups complete within the backup windows and improves backup success rates Reduced storage costs through 90%-95% (or even higher) data deduplication ratios and cost-per-terabyte licensing Significant reduction in backup administration time frees staff for higher value tasks Reduced support calls; platform reliability and stability makes 24×7 support easy to deliver … but the most compelling benefit is that their data is now readily available. With a Veritas NetBackup Appliance, you assume control over your data. It delivers direct access to yourbackupcopies – there are no tapes to retrieve and change which is a massive time saver – making that ‘right to be forgotten’ request so much easier to deal with. Get ready for GDPRand boostyour backup and recovery performance to a whole new level with the new Veritas NetBackup 5240 Appliance. Start today. Note: This post was first published on my Linkedin on 21July 2016.
