MirrorWeb unveils Digital Archiving solution
A UK startup, MirrorWeb, has launched a SAAS platform that takes a permanent mirror of your website, blog and social media sites.
Philip Clegg, MirrorWeb CTO, said, "One of the biggest pitfalls organisations fall victim to is the inability to differentiate between a data archive and a backup. Backups are only retained for a few days which makes them short-term insurance policies. In comparison, archives provide fast, accurate and ongoing access to business information."
Using automatic crawling technology, MirrorWeb takes ongoing snapshots of a website and social media. Each individual archived file is signed with a SHA digital signature and branded with an ANSI x9.95 compliant timestamp, this allows clients to produce non-refutable records from a specified date.
With websites, blogs, social media and email now ingrained as the primary form of communication for most companies, the need to archive these digital assets is crucial. Compliance is not an option and should a company come under investigation, the regulator must be able to view and replay archived digital content in their unmodified original format. This includes web pages, links, blogs, videos, audio, flash content and JavaScript-based features. The laws also apply to corporate social media accounts, with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and LinkedIn content all subject to archiving laws.
Clegg went on to say, "Social media is one of the most powerful tools a business can leverage, however it's critical to remain complaint with regulators who are not frightened to impose significant sanctions on the non-compliant."
MirrorWeb offers a "timeline" interface allows users to pinpoint changes to social media feed and website over time, thus maintaining a stable, time structured, verifiably authentic and independent version of corporate digital content.
Philip Clegg, MirrorWeb CTO, said, "One of the biggest pitfalls organisations fall victim to is the inability to differentiate between a data archive and a backup. Backups are only retained for a few days which makes them short-term insurance policies. In comparison, archives provide fast, accurate and ongoing access to business information."
Using automatic crawling technology, MirrorWeb takes ongoing snapshots of a website and social media. Each individual archived file is signed with a SHA digital signature and branded with an ANSI x9.95 compliant timestamp, this allows clients to produce non-refutable records from a specified date.
With websites, blogs, social media and email now ingrained as the primary form of communication for most companies, the need to archive these digital assets is crucial. Compliance is not an option and should a company come under investigation, the regulator must be able to view and replay archived digital content in their unmodified original format. This includes web pages, links, blogs, videos, audio, flash content and JavaScript-based features. The laws also apply to corporate social media accounts, with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and LinkedIn content all subject to archiving laws.
Clegg went on to say, "Social media is one of the most powerful tools a business can leverage, however it's critical to remain complaint with regulators who are not frightened to impose significant sanctions on the non-compliant."
MirrorWeb offers a "timeline" interface allows users to pinpoint changes to social media feed and website over time, thus maintaining a stable, time structured, verifiably authentic and independent version of corporate digital content.