Programmatic Data Destruction for
eDiscovery, Risk Mitigation

Activate policies to destroy obsolete data enterprise-wide

DataControl™ can help your company reduce the cost of maintaining obsolete data with programmatic data destruction. BitArmor™ can destroy data using centrally managed policies, whether it resides on laptops, desktops, servers, removable media, or backup media — even if it has been transmitted as an e-mail attachment — throughout your organization.

Automatic encryption key management makes it possible

BitArmor’s automatic key management enables two very unique functions: enforceable retention policies and permanent destruction for distributed data. Once data reaches the end of a pre-defined retention policy, the encryption settings are automatically changed and encryption keys will no longer be issued for data that has expired.

Once data with a retention policy has expired, administrators may choose to permanently destroy that data. BitArmor enables this permanent destruction by actually destroying the corresponding encryption key. Once a key is destroyed, its associated data is permanently encrypted and cannot be decrypted, accessed or reconstituted. The destruction activity is captured in the central audit log, proving for litigation that the data actually was destroyed, and rendering that data reasonably inaccessible and exempt from eDiscovery. Also, with the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including the Safe Harbor Rule 37 (f), if data is destroyed in good faith and as a function of a documented records management and retention policy, the act is viewed as best practice and not spoliation and can not be held liable for the destruction of data.

With its programmatic destruction function, BitArmor DataControl will help your organization simplify its eDiscovery process and mitigate risk by ensuring that you’re maintaining only the data required.