Organizations have a duty to preserve relevant information when litigation is reasonably anticipated.
Modern cloud applications, however, use automated retention, caching, pruning, or deletion processes that can complicate legal preservation obligations and data-retention requirements.
Simple data preservation and data management techniques can help mitigate these risks and improve compliance.
Encrypt and restrict sensitive data to avoid exposure in records or plaintext logs.
Prove the data is genuine and unaltered with digital signatures, timestamps, hashing, checksums, and PKI.
Turn off hidden Auto-Delete features, backup important files, and log critical events, such as unsaved PDF changes or form inputs during system crashes.