Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

A fundamental element of sound information governance plans, classification lets you analyze information and then make informed decisions about what to retain and what to delete. Through the classification feature in Enterprise Vault, you can do the following:

• Automatically classify all archived content.

• Assign unique retention to individual items.

• Tag items for faster search, discovery, or supervisory review.

• Reclassify an entire archive or specific archived items to adapt to changing retention requirements.

In this release of Enterprise Vault you can choose from two classification engines with which to classify your content:

• Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure (FCI). The FCI is a classification framework that is built into recent Windows Server editions and that you control through the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) interface.

  To define the criteria that an item must match to be awarded a specific classification value, you create rules with the FSRM. Enterprise Vault comes with a set of example classification rules, which you can import into the FSRM and use as a starting point to create your own set of rules.

  For more information on this feature, see the Classification using the Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure guide.

• Veritas Information Classifier. This release includes the next generation of our Veritas Information Classifier engine for classifying all new and existing archived content. The new engine provides multifaceted classification through advanced proximity searches, regular expressions, default keywords and patterns, and checksum validation. It can also classify content by confidence level and hit rate.

  The Veritas Information Classifier includes built-in classification policies, which cover many of the data protection regulations and corporate standards worldwide. For example, you can meet privacy regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through policies to detect personally identifiable information. You can also create custom policies.

  For more information on this feature, see the Classification using the Veritas Information Classifier guide.

Through the facilities that are available in both the Administration Console and PowerShell cmdlets, you can choose the classification options that you want to implement in your Enterprise Vault site. These options let you choose to do the following:

• Send items for classification and tag them with the results at the same time that Enterprise Vault indexes and archives them. This is also the case if you perform an index rebuild of an archive or index volume, which causes Enterprise Vault to reclassify the associated items.

• Update the retention category of items when users manually delete them or Enterprise Vault automatically expires them - or optionally when Enterprise Vault indexes and archives the items.