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Veritas Alta eDiscovery User Guide

The Veritas Alta Classification now integrates with Veritas Alta Archiving to classify the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that Veritas Alta Archiving archives. The Veritas Alta Classification's built-in policies address many of the regulatory requirements and corporate standards for which you may want to classify emails.

If your company has the Veritas Alta Classification service enabled, the service can apply classification tags to Veritas Alta Archiving's incoming emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that match the enabled policies in the Veritas Alta Classification. Alta eDiscovery users can then search for the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that are tagged with the classification tags.

For example, your company can enable the classification policies that detect personally identifiable information (PII) to help meet privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).The PII policies match content like credit card numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, passport numbers, and driver's license numbers. When the Veritas Alta Classification identifies an email that matches the criteria for the policy, a PII classification tag is assigned in a header that gets added to the email. A Alta eDiscovery reviewer can then perform a search for the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that have the PII tag assigned. In this way, classification reduces review effort to meet your organization's regulatory requirements.

Note the following about the classification process:

  • The classification tags that are associated with a policy get applied only to those matching emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that are ingested into Veritas Alta Archiving after the policy is enabled. Any previously archived emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files do not get tagged.

  • If your system administrator changes or disables a classification policy, the changes affect the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that are subsequently ingested into Veritas Alta Archiving. The changes are not reflected in the existing archived emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files. For example if you disable a previously enabled classification policy, any archived emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that were tagged as a result of matching the policy remain tagged in Veritas Alta Archiving.

  • While previewing the HTML-rendered text of emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files, the application highlights the policy text mentioned in the applied classification tags.

    Sample image of highlighted text in emails:

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    Sample image of highlighted text in collaboration message:

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    Sample image of highlighted text in files:

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    Sample image of highlighted text in attachments:

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  • Important: The application does not highlight the same text in the images and the native view of the files.

For information on how set up the classification of emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files with the Veritas Alta Classification, see the Veritas Alta Archiving Archive Administration Help.