Overview
Group 2000 and filerskeepers have partnered with each other bringing our users the ultimate privacy setup. Partnering with Group 2000 is a step towards a future with endless possibilities. With Group 2000 working with intelligence agencies, telecommunications service providers, and surveillance & law enforcement, filerskeepers hopes to achieve the pinnacle of data protection by serving several governmental bodies through this partnership.
About Group 2000
Established in 1978 Group 2000 is financially independent and has been a family business headquartered in the Netherlands. Creating intelligent security solutions for law enforcement, intelligence agencies, telecom providers, and internet service providers Group 2000’s user-friendly solutions support its users on strategic, tactical, and operational levels enabling users to meet customer objectives through reliability and greater user experience. As an active ETSI and 3GPP member, Group 2000 contributes to the development and evolution of Lawful Interception and Lawful Disclosure standards and specifications.
“Partnering with filerskeepers enables Group 2000 to provide our customers a trusted partner, which can advise them on the country specific data retention policies that legally are required to be implemented on the LIMA Data Retention solution“
– Group 2000
How Group 2000 works with filerskeepers
Specializing in Storage and Disclosure solutions and migrating old data from obsolete systems such as Oracle and ERP, into Group 2000’s own, the LIMA Data Retention system can cope with massive amounts of metadata, analysing and storing it in near real-time.
With filerskeepers in the picture now, organizations will find it easier to comply with the law and save themselves time and effort of reading through the laws and crossmatching with all old data and records stored in previously used legacy systems. Here is how it works:
- Step 1: Historicize structured and unstructured data across existing platforms.
- Step 2: Migrate historicized data from old legacy systems.
- Step 3: Access data in a secure and updated platform provided by Group 2000
- Step 4: Manage and apply record labels and data structures to all these data using filerskeepers technology.
- Step 5: Delete old and obsolete data, and store records necessary as required by law with retention schedules from filerskeepers.
- Step 6: Achieve Compliance and reduce exposure to data breaches with increased security.
Benefits of using both Group 2000 and filerskeepers
Companies will need to transition from a records retention policy and schedule that is solely focused on document types, record series, and departments to one that is focused on types of personal information, considering the purpose for processing. Providing typical data retention functionalities like legal hold, expiration, and lawful disclosure and the guidance of retention schedules from filerskeepers, compliance which was once considered arduous for many companies, local and multinationals alike has now become an easy task.
LIMA Data retention by Group 2000 can scan through hundreds of millions of data in a single day and return required search results in a matter of seconds while ensuring secure storage and effectiveness of cost. With filerskeepers teaming up, apply record labels and recognize retention obligations and achieve compliance with almost no hassle or extra investment automatically on the platform.
Why we love Group 2000
LIMA Data Retention by Group 2000 stores new types of records without compromising the integrity of existing data or the performance of the system. This allows you to make changes at reasonable costs without the need for a full redesign of the system. Backdated legacy systems along with the ever-increasing flow of data and records end up becoming the bane of several departments in a company and Group 2000 stepped up to solve just that, making life easier for people working in audit, legal and several other departments alike.
Frequently Asked questions
- How does your system deal with data retention policies?
LIMA Data Retention will store data for a predefined period. In many cases data must be retained for a certain period of time but also needs to be deleted immediately when this period expires. LIMA Data Retention includes functions that automatically expires and deletes data, so no data can be retrieved outside the allowed retention period.
- Can your solution be used for disclosing information only?
Yes. The storage and data disclosure systems are decoupled. If the data storage is in place, but there is a need for disclosing information only, we can provide our disclosure platform.
- How flexible is the solution in terms of sizing and scalability?
The solution is based on Apache Cassandra nodes. If more storage is required we can add more nodes and configure them to be part of the storage.
- Does the solution require on-prem hardware, or can it be cloud based?
The Apache Cassandra nodes can be deployed at prem or in a public cloud environment like Amazon AWS which is supported. It makes us of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature. To ensure a high level of fault tolerance three Availability zones are required for the deployment of the Apache Cassandra nodes. When geo-redundancy is required cross-region VPC peering will need to be set-up to ensure the connection between two Amazon Virtual Private Cloud environments.
- Which file types are supported?
The solution is data agnostic. Meaning we can handle any file format. It’s like your own computer. You’ll be able store any file type, but you will need a specific application to open it.
- Does your system have data tampering protection?
Yes. Tamper detection prevents the data to be changed or deleted once it is stored in LIMA Data Retention. This is achieved by hashing all content records. The SHA-256 hashes on the content records are verified during data retrieval; this prevents against unauthorized changes of individual records.