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Frequently, companies put governance requirements in place to comply with industry-standard practices, government regulations such as ISO or Sarbanes-Oxley, or to create specific security or information-management standards.
These regulations often require retaining data for specific timelines. Retention timeline requirements can vary widely by department, function, or even by datatype. Without an automated data-retention system, adhering to such guidelines would be difficult, resource-intensive, and risky.
SmartLock can match retention requirements based on several parameters including datatype, location, and owner, making corporate governance requirements easy to meet over time, regardless of how they change.