{"id":25254,"date":"2016-03-30T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/how-to-archive-encrypted-emails-in-a-legally-compliant-manner\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:58:16","slug":"how-to-archive-encrypted-emails-in-a-legally-compliant-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-archive-encrypted-emails-in-a-legally-compliant-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"How to archive encrypted emails in a legally compliant manner"},"content":{"rendered":"\nSending an email via the internet is well known to be comparable to sending a postcard. Anyone who is in some way involved in the transportation process can theoretically read or even alter the contents without being detected. If one wants to prevent this when using regular mail, then the solution is to send the information in a letter secured inside a sealed envelope. The corresponding equivalent for email communication is sufficient encryption including an electronic signature. For companies such protective measures are by no means only an end in themselves – in many countries regulators expressly require businesses to ensure that personal data cannot be read, copied, altered or deleted without authorization. As a result, many enterprises use standardized procedures such as S\/MIME or PGP to send offers, invoices, patient information and customer data.\n
If emails don\u2019t only have to be transmitted in encrypted form but also have to be archived in compliance with legal requirements, IT decision-makers often find themselves faced with a new problem: How can it be guaranteed that despite end-to-end encryption the message will remain readable throughout the archiving period? Even if the recipient concerned has already left the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ret_read_more_text":"","ret_thumb_border":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3043],"tags":[180,56,43,74],"ret_content_type":[3072],"class_list":["post-25254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cloud","tag-email-encryption","tag-email-security","tag-enterprise-email-archive","ret_content_type-how-to-guides"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n