Systems and methods for protecting email data

摘要

Aspects of this disclosure relate to protecting email data. For example, email protection rules can instruct an email server to route an email to an email protection module. The one or more email rules can identify a group of one or more email addresses. The email protection module can receive an email from the email server that has an email address of the group as an intended receipt. The email protection module can route the email to secondary storage and store the email in secondary storage to create a secondary copy of the email. The secondary copy can be stored inline to persistent memory of secondary storage, according to certain embodiments. Access to the backup copy of the email stored to the persistent memory can be controlled, for example, based on whether a user had permission to access to the email when the email was sent.

主权项

1. A method of protecting email data using email protection rules that are distributed amongst multiple computing devices, the method comprising:
by a first computing device, accessing one or more email protection rules, the email protection rules comprising: (i) a first portion including information usable to identify emails to forward to a second computing device, and (ii) a second portion including information usable to determine which secondary storage controller computer of a plurality of secondary storage controller computers to use in secondary copy operations associated with emails forwarded to the second computing device; based at least partly on the first portion of the one or more email protection rules, instructing an email server application to route emails processed by the email server application to the second computing device in addition to routing the emails to intended recipients of the emails, wherein the second computing device is separate from a computing device on which the email server application resides, and wherein the one or more email protection rules identify a group of one or more email addresses and specify that the email server application is only to route emails to the second computing device for which at least one of the intended recipients corresponds to one of the one or more email addresses in the group; by the second computing device:
receiving an email from the email server application, at least one intended recipient of the email corresponding to one of the one or more email addresses of the group;accessing the second portion of the one or more email protection rules:reviewing the second portion of the one or more email protection rules; andbased on the review of the second portion of the one or more email protection rules, determining a target secondary storage controller computer of the plurality of secondary storage controller computers to which to route the email; routing the email from the second computing device to the target secondary storage controller computer; and storing the email in secondary storage to create a secondary copy of the email.