Case Study: South Carolina Department of Corrections achieves faster, low-cost legal discovery and compliance with Barracuda Networks' Message Archiver

South Carolina Department of Corrections Takes the Middle Man out of Litigation and Legal Discovery

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), a state agency with 6,000 employees, 23,000 inmates and 27 institutions, needed a way to manage and retain email across more than 2,500 accounts for legal discovery and compliance. With limited in-house experience in message archiving, strict budget constraints, and a need to reduce manual labor and enforce retention policies, SCDC’s IT team sought an easy, cost-effective solution.

SCDC deployed the Barracuda Message Archiver, a plug-and-play appliance that indexes and stores email centrally, supports compliance standards, and requires no per-user licensing. The archiver was up in under an hour, immediately simplified searches across accounts, centralized preserved files, reduced discovery time and manual effort, and gave the agency greater confidence in meeting legal and retention requirements.

South Carolina Department of Corrections

David Pfaehler

Branch Chief of Network and Telecommunications Division