Backing up, retaining and safeguarding electronic data, including email, financial records, medical information and other electronic documents are essential steps and often mandated practices for organizations. However, many organizations still need to implement an electronic data retention policy or refine an existing one.

This Electronic Data Retention Policy, written by Erik Eckel for TechRepublic Premium, is designed to help accomplish either task.

Featured text from the policy:

After a review of its electronic document management and retention practices, the company is instituting this policy for the following reasons:

To ensure compliance with electronic data retention rules and regulations.

To preserve storage space on the organization’s servers, systems, desktop computers, laptops and other devices.

To encourage optimal system and network performance.

To eliminate confusion over different document iterations.

To ensure the authenticity of electronic documents on organization-owned equipment.

To ensure that important documents are not made unusable by technological upgrades.

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