Executive summary
The data retention challenge
As terrorists and serious organised criminals exploit cyberspace to accelerate and facilitate their real-world crimes, so European Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are coming under increasing pressure to retain communications data to enable public authorities to investigate, detect and prosecute crime.
The Detica DataRetain™ compliance solution
Detica DataRetain™ provides an innovative solution to the data retention compliance challenge. By combining proven data compression software with low-cost, off-the-shelf, small footprint, energy-efficient hardware, Detica DataRetain™ enables CSPs to store billions of data records securely.
By storing all data records and deleting time-expired records completely automatically, Detica DataRetain™ minimises time spent on routine system administration. Data records are available for retrieval within seconds of being stored and can be retrieved within milliseconds. As well as being fast, compact and highly secure, Detica DataRetain™ is scalable to accommodate the growth of IP traffic for the foreseeable future.
In addition to providing highly efficient data storage and retrieval capabilities, Detica DataRetain™ forms a seamless interface between law enforcement agencies and CSP police liaison units. It features a quick and simple user interface whose workflow management features can be easily configured to adapt to your current business processes. This allows your compliance team to provide top quality, highly-automated responses to data requests with minimal disruption to business operations. Any data handed over to enquirers is fully encrypted via SSL/TLS certification with the option of using the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) Data Retention Interface. Detica DataRetain™ also allows you to offer law enforcement officers direct, self-service data retrieval in the form of a secure portal accessed over the Internet. Language options include English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
Detica DataRetain™ is a robust, high availability system with full back-up and disaster recovery achieved by replicating all data on a secondary system. The system maintains full audit trail logging of user transactions and system administration to prevent misuse and assure evidential quality. Software licensing and support are competitively priced.
