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Product Spotlight: Trusted Contacts

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Introducing MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts: A Privacy-First Breakthrough in Mobile Communications Archiving

Today we’re very excited to introduce MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts, the mobile communications archiving app that effectively supports both BYOD and corporate devices. Regulated organizations, such as financial services firms, can now meet recordkeeping requirements without compromising employee privacy or productivity.

Why Mobile Archiving Has Been Broken – Until Now

Financial services firms must capture and archive mobile communications for the SEC, FINRA, and other regulators. However, all existing solutions come with inherent challenges. A traditional approach is for employees to use separate handsets for business and personal communications, which is impractical and expensive, and still comes with compliance risks.

For companies that operate a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, full device capture means everything is archived, including personal messages, which raises privacy concerns. Alternatively, business-only apps require separate phone numbers and applications, which is inefficient and frustrating for employees and customers.

MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts solves this. It’s the only archiving app that lets employees ensure only business communications are captured from their devices, whether BYOD or corporate. As well as the obvious privacy benefits, users can stay compliant without changing how they work or how their customers prefer to work.

How It Works

Trusted Contacts is a standalone application that integrates with MirrorWeb’s existing iMessage, WhatsApp, and Android SMS archiving capability, allowing customers to make any mobile device compliant. Users connect their mobile channels, and MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts automatically excludes personal messages from retention. Users can utilize an employee-owned or corporate device, don’t have to download a separate messaging application, and can keep the same cell number they’ve had for years. This simplified setup will allow businesses to take control of their mobile communications monitoring challenges.

Put simply, it’s communications compliance done right. No separate messaging apps, second numbers, or employee workarounds.

What Makes Trusted Contacts Unique?

Privacy-First Contact Management
  • Users easily categorize contacts as “Business” or “Personal.”
  • Bulk actions and multi-number support for contacts who have multiple phone numbers
  • Contacts marked as “Personal” are excluded from archiving.  
Smart Filtering & Storage
  • Direct device capture of iMessage, WhatsApp, and SMS.
  • Messages to/from “Business” contacts are ingested into the compliance platform.
  • Messages to/from “Personal” contacts remain private, with no ingestion.  
Group Chat Support  
  • If any participant is tagged as “Business” or remains unknown, the entire conversation is archived.
  • If all participants are “Personal,” the conversation is excluded.
2FA Provisioning & Verification  
  • Secure onboarding ensures that only authorized phone numbers are archived.
  • OTP-based validation ties a user’s personal device to their corporate credentials.  
Admin Oversight & Audit Logs  
  • Administrators can invite monitored users, view changes in contact status, and search archived data by phone number or email.
  • Every contact status change is timestamped, providing clear, searchable audit trails.  
Organizational-Level Configuration  
  • Set defaults (e.g., new contacts as “Business” or “Personal”) to match corporate policy.
  • Easily verify that “Personal” contacts are truly personal.

Why Compliance Teams Trust MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts

MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts was built with direct input from compliance leaders and designed to align with recordkeeping, supervision and audit-readiness standards.

  • Protect employee privacy while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
  • Deploy quickly without issuing new devices or retraining teams.
  • Scale easily as your business grows - from small teams to global enterprises.

No more tradeoffs. Just secure, scalable, and privacy-conscious archiving.

Ready to Take Control of Mobile Compliance?

With MirrorWeb Trusted Contacts, financial firms can finally close the mobile compliance gap – without adding friction for employees or risking privacy violations.  

Ready to streamline your mobile archiving strategy, reduce communications compliance risk, and support your regulatory obligations? Request a demo above to get the ball rolling!

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