What is an 'IRP'?

What is an 'IRP'?

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An IRP stands for information retention policy. Many corporations today are instituting information retention policies around how long information can be retained for, specifically e-mail. So in other words, they may set a limit for 90 days in your inbox for an e-mail and maybe 12 months or 15 months for e-mails in your hanging folders, folders that you are storing information in e-mails.