Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Smarsh has acquired MobileGuard, our long-term partner and pioneer in mobile communication monitoring and retention.

Along with its team, MobileGuard brings its patented, intellectual property and development resources to Smarsh. These resources will continue to enhance the full Smarsh suite of mobile archiving solutions, which enable companies to retain and monitor employee text messages across all combinations of mobile operating systems, carriers, and device ownership scenarios.

That means that no matter how, where or when your employees send and receive business-related text messages, Smarsh has a solution to help retain and monitor them for the purposes of risk management, meeting regulatory obligations, responding to public records requests, or supporting e-discovery needs.

This is increasingly important at a time when companies are starting to realize they will experience brand and reputation problems, compliance consequences, and thorny legal issues if they don’t proactively put the right mobile governance safeguards in place.

Businesses must retain, govern and produce text messages with the same scrutiny as email and all other electronic communications used by employees. However, the effective governance of SMS and MMS text messages has lagged across most industries, including financial services, lending, and the public sector.

“Mobile communication is an area of tremendous vulnerability that many companies have ignored,” said Smarsh CEO Stephen Marsh. “And, the businesses that have tried to deal with this situation have either adopted multiple, disparate products that still leave large gaps, or they have attempted to prohibit the use of mobile text messaging for business – which is unrealistic.”

Smarsh now has the only comprehensive archiving solution that captures mobile/text content directly from leading telecom carriers. Our customers can retain and supervise mobile/text content no matter which operating systems, mobile carriers or devices (company-issued or Bring Your Own Device) their business and employees use. Mobile content is available for search, review and production within The Archiving Platform from Smarsh, and can be archived alongside other digital communications including email, social media, instant messaging and web content.

“MobileGuard has been innovating in the space for years, is trusted by top brands, and has been a valuable partner of ours with a shared vision to mitigate the compliance chaos that springs forward from digital trends,” said Marsh. “Together, we provide companies with the most comprehensive mobile archiving and monitoring solutions available, eliminating the complexities caused by the large number of mobile configurations typically found within any organization.”

Visit www.smarsh.com/press-release/smarsh-acquires-mobile-guard to learn more about the announcement.