Symantec Corp. today announced that the State of Missouri has selected Symantec Enterprise Vault as its e-mail archiving platform, ensuring the security and retention of electronic communications in accordance with Governor Matt Blunt's directive to archive government e-mails. Enterprise Vault enables the state to comply with legal discovery requirements and information access policies such as open-records requests. The state also plans to leverage Enterprise Vault to improve e-mail storage capabilities while streamlining and simplifying e-mail system management.

The State of Missouri's Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) supports nearly six million citizens and approximately 60,000 government employees. The ITSD is chartered with implementing an e-mail archiving system for 14 of the state's 16 executive branch agencies and supporting an IT infrastructure that handles more than 1.5 million e-mails each day.

The State of Missouri's licensing agreement for Enterprise Vault further expands the level of standardization on Symantec solutions. The state already uses Symantec AntiVirus to secure the desktop environment for the executive branch agencies as well as Symantec Mail Security, Gateway Security, Ghost Solution Suite, pcAnywhere, and Backup Exec to secure and manage various components of the state's IT infrastructure.