Who it’s for
The buying committee does not sort by industry. A compliance officer and the general counsel two desks away answer for entirely different things — so start from the one you are measured on.
Rated 5 out of 5. “From 4–6 months to minutes.” — EMSL
Compliance Officer
You are accountable for proving, on demand, that the firm retained the records its rules require, reviewed them against written policy, and can produce any of them inside a deadline.
Chief Compliance Officer · Compliance Manager
General Counsel & Legal
You are accountable for preserving everything a dispute touches from the moment it is reasonably anticipated, and for producing on a methodology you are willing to defend on the record.
eDiscovery Manager · Litigation Support
IT & Infrastructure
You are accountable for the archive actually running — capture that does not fail silently, storage that does not surprise you, and a platform that does not turn into another cluster with your name on it.
CIO · CTO · VP IT · IT Director · Systems Administrator
CISO & Security
You are accountable for the fact that this system concentrates everything sensitive in one place — and for being able to say precisely who can reach it, what they did with it, and what a single insider can do unilaterally.
Security Engineer
Records & Information Governance
You are accountable for a retention schedule that is genuinely in force: records kept exactly as long as the rule requires, destroyed when it expires, and provably so in both directions.
Data Protection Officer
FOIA & Public Records Officer
You are accountable for getting a complete, lawful response out of the door before the statutory clock expires — and for justifying every withholding and every fee on it.
Public Records Officer · Open Records Coordinator · Records Custodian
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