Forrester® Recognizes Shield for Modernizing Archiving With a Cloud-Native Approach 

NEW YORK – August 2026 – Shield, a leading Communications Risk Management platform, has been highlighted in The Information Archiving Platforms Landscape, Q3 2026, published by leading analyst firm Forrester. The report covers 26 vendors across geographic reach, industry focus, and deployment models, enabling readers to assess which platforms are built for today’s compliance reality.

Against a backdrop of legacy technology, Forrester® recognized Shield’s cloud-native approach and named Shield as one of the few vendors bringing newer architecture to information archiving. 

What Firms Evaluating Their Archiving Strategy Should Consider 

Forrester’s Landscape frames information archiving as a mature, consolidating market. Several rounds of consolidation have occurred over the past decade, as established vendors acquire competitors and adjacent products to expand their portfolios rather than rebuild from the ground up. That reality shapes what firms should weigh when evaluating their own archiving strategy:

• Consolidation does not necessarily address the limitations of legacy architecture. Decisions made more than a decade ago may constrain firms’ ability to meet today’s requirements. 
  
• Cloud-native architecture isn’t just an infrastructure upgrade; it offers the scalability and flexibility that legacy systems constrain, forming the foundation for faster discovery, higher data fidelity, and AI-enabled compliance workflows.
  
• Firms that remain on aging systems are carrying growing operational, regulatory, and competitive risk. 

A recent webinar, in partnership with Forrester, explored these considerations and what modern archiving actually looks like. Read the recap for the key practical takeaways. 

An Archive Built As a Foundation, Not Just a Repository 

In its research, Forrester also identified the proliferation of information sources and data volumes as a primary market challenge, alongside compliance and governance obligations that only continue to grow. The real test is knowing that the right information has been captured completely, remains accessible, and can be investigated when required. 

Shield Archive’s approach centers on three principles: data completeness, end-to-end visibility, and security by design. Data completeness ensures that every communication has been captured, indexed, and accounted for, with reconciliation reporting that closes the gap between what should be archived and what has been archived. 

End-to-end visibility keeps every record traceable and available on demand, from ingestion through review. Compliance, legal, and investigation teams can work from one accessible source of truth rather than separate copies scattered across systems.

Security by design is provided by a dedicated, single-tenant architecture that gives each customer a distinct environment for its communications data, with the flexibility to store data in preferred geographic regions and with no data export or exit fees. 

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If your archive was built for yesterday’s compliance reality, let’s talk about what modern archiving could look like for your firm. Feel free to contact us. We welcome the opportunity to show you Shield Archive in practice.