Google Workspace – Vault Add-on

Enterprise Information Governance and eDiscovery

In today's regulatory landscape, organizations cannot afford to lose critical communications or fail to produce documents during legal disputes. If an employee maliciously deletes a vital email or a court mandates the retrieval of a three-year-old chat log, relying on standard IT recovery tools is not enough. Google Workspace Vault is a powerful, built-in information governance and eDiscovery platform. Digitl acts as your independent technology partner, architecting strict data retention policies and legal hold frameworks within Vault to ensure your enterprise remains completely compliant and legally protected at all times.

The Strategic Value of Information Governance

The Difference Between Backup and Vault

A common misconception is that Vault is a backup tool. It is not. Backups are for disaster recovery (e.g., restoring a deleted file to a user's active Drive). Vault is for legal preservation. If an employee deletes an email, Vault quietly keeps a hidden, immutable copy on Google's servers strictly for compliance officers and legal teams to access when necessary.

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Mitigating Insider Threats

If a departing employee attempts to sabotage the company by deleting critical client communications or intellectual property from their inbox, standard trash bins are emptied in 30 days. Digitl configures Vault retention rules to intercept this behavior, ensuring the data survives on the backend for legal prosecution or operational recovery.

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Accelerating Internal Investigations

When HR or compliance teams need to investigate harassment claims or data leaks, asking IT to manually sift through active user accounts is slow and breaches confidentiality. Vault provides a centralized, discreet platform for authorized investigators to pull the exact necessary communication logs in minutes.

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Eliminating Third-Party Archiving

Many organizations pay exorbitant fees for clunky, third-party email archiving solutions that require complex routing rules. Vault is completely native to the Google Workspace ecosystem, requiring zero on-premise hardware and seamlessly capturing data exactly as it flows through Google's own servers.

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Seamlessly Integrated with Archived User Licenses

Google Workspace Vault works hand-in-hand with the Archived User (AU) addon. When an employee leaves the company and their active license is downgraded to an AU license, all of the retention rules and legal holds you established in Vault remain perfectly intact. This allows your legal team to continue searching and exporting the former employee's historical data for years, without the IT department having to maintain an expensive, full enterprise license.

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