Legal Hold:
Protection of Legally Relevant Data
The Legal Hold function allows specific data and documents to be deliberately protected from deletion in situations such as litigation, audits or internal investigations. Designated content remains unchanged, ensuring that statutory retention periods, compliance requirements and international standards are reliably met.
Legal Hold and Data Deletion:
Legal Certainty and Data Integrity in Decommissioned Legacy Systems
With ViewBox, our specially developed research system for decommissioned legacy systems, we offer companies two core functions for data-protection-compliant archive management: Legal Hold and controlled data deletion. Both functions ensure legally sound handling of archived information, from protection and statutory retention through to audit-compliant deletion.
Legal Basis
Relevant legal bases:
Sarbanes-Oxley
Act (SOX)
The U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires internationally active and publicly listed companies to retain business and financial information over the long term in a traceable manner. With Legal Hold, these requirements can also be met in decommissioned legacy systems, since relevant data are reliably protected from deletion and remain accessible at any time.
eDiscovery Requirements
(e.g. in the United States)
In many international legal systems, especially in the United States, companies are required to provide electronic evidence in a structured form during investigations or court proceedings. The Legal Hold function in ViewBox helps preserve relevant data over the long term and meet legal requirements for transparency and traceability.
Controlled Data Deletion:
Secure, Automated and Audit-Compliant
Once statutory or internal retention periods have expired, ViewBox enables fully controlled deletion of archived data. The function can be automated, is fully logged and ensures that deletion is carried out in a compliant manner.
Key Benefits of the
Deletion Function
- Automation
Deletion processes can be configured to start automatically once the relevant retention period expires. This minimises manual effort, saves time and reduces the risk of human error.
- Full audit trail
Every deletion is documented end to end, from identifying the data to the final confirmation of deletion. Companies can demonstrate at any time that they have fulfilled their deletion obligations in a compliant manner.
- Regulatory compliance
ViewBox helps companies reliably implement complex statutory and industry-specific deletion requirements. Violations of data protection or retention obligations, along with potential fines or reputational damage, can be effectively avoided.
Conclusion
With its Legal Hold and controlled data deletion functions, ViewBox provides a comprehensive solution for the legally sound and audit-compliant handling of archived information in decommissioned legacy systems. Companies not only meet statutory requirements but also reduce risk, safeguard data integrity and strengthen their compliance structures in a sustainable and efficient way.
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