Axigen Compliance With E.u. And U.s. Data Retention Policies
February 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Axigen Compliance With E.u. And U.s. Data Retention Policies
1. Why Data Retention?
Lately the Internet news sites and blogs have all been buzzing with reports of privacy infringements by various IT companies regulation changes and updates on the laws already in effect all related to data retention policies.
Well what does all this mean? In effect the majority of companies providing IT services in one way or another have to abide by these new regulations in order to comply with the new standards. Initially data retention was not mandatory but it soon became clear mostly in the past few years that legal administrative commercial and even social interests can be better protected through such an initiative.
This article describes how the Axigen messaging solution www.axigen.com is in compliance with both United States and European Union currently effective laws and policies related to data retention and data preservation. These measures were adopted by service providers mainly to minimize the risk of deletion or modification of records and communications.
The Axigen Messaging Solution is fully compliant with all the laws and regulations in effect to date over both the United States and the European Union territories. In the next few pages each area will be treated independently and references to the specific requirements enforced for that area alone will be listed.
2. First Stop: Europe
European Union data retention policies are listed in the Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC. This Directive can be accessed online at the following link:
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0024:EN:HTML
According to this Directive any service provider SP that offers publicly available electronic communications services or public communications networks must abide by the rules listed below.
Categories of data to be retained excerpt from the above linked page:
a Data necessary to trace and identify the source of a communication:
The user ID allocated
The name and address of the subscriber or registered user to whom an IP address or user ID was allocated at the time of the communication
b Data necessary to trace and identify the destination of a communication:
The user ID or telephone number of the intended recipients
The names and addresses of the subscribers or registered users and user ID of the intended recipient of the communication
c Data necessary to identify the date time and duration of a communication:
The date and time of the login and logoff of the Internet access service based on a certain time zone together with the IP address whether dynamic or static allocated by the Internet access service provider to a communication and the user ID of the subscriber or registered user
The date and time of the login and logoff of the Internet email service or Internet telephony service based on a certain time zone
d Data necessary to identify the type of communication:
The Internet service used
For all of these categories of data to be retained the Axigen Mail Server makes use of the logging functionality to store the information and save it to disk. The data should be kept for a minimum six months and not more than two years.
To continue to read this article please visit:
http://www.axigen.com/articles/axigencompliancewitheuandusdataretentionpolicies_48.html
To join our free live webinar on data retention regulations and how to deploy and maintan a fully compliant messaging solution please check out our webinars page:
http://www.axigen.com/webinars/
About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;About AXIGEN
A dynamic and talented team of professionals with 15 years of experience in technology research and software security embarked in 2003 on a new and challenging project under the brand name AXIGEN.
AXIGEN Mail Server is a fast reliable and secure internet messaging solution offering the power and sturdiness of a carrier class mail server. The first commercial version of AXIGEN for all major Linux distributions was unveiled at LinuxWorld Expo in London in September 2005. One year after the official launch AXIGEN has already concluded business agreements with more than 90 domestic and international partners from over 50 countries such as the United States United Kingdom Germany Mexico the Netherlands and Romania and manages email traffic for approximately 500000 mailboxes worldwide.
AXIGEN smoothly integrates SMTP/POP/IMAP and WebMail offering unique configurability and security that allow system administrators to have full control of the email traffic. Our mission is to help AXIGEN users and partners worldwide to build trust in our products as well as in our business relationships.
For further details please visit: http://www.axigen.com/
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