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part 4 of the four part series about Electronic data Discovery 2007-06-14 05:49:46 To do truly useful monitoring and analysis of data access requires understanding who the users are and what permissions they have, Summers says, so he expects electronic data discovery tools to begin monitoring policy servers and directory services in the next year. That requires a cohesive strategy for compliance and security, one that requires coordinating [...] Read more:series
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part 3 Electronic data Discovery 2007-06-13 05:47:58 CIOs should be sure they don’t approach ELECTRONIC DATA DISCOVERY solely as an IT issue. “Let your general counsel manage this,” advises Matt Curtin, founder of the forensic computing consultancy Interhack. An attorney can best decide what records would be needed for legal proceedings. And he can set guidelines on cleansing transaction histories: “The longer [...] Read more:Electronic
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part two of the four part series Electronic data Discovery 2007-06-12 05:39:04 Here is the second post on the four part seriesElectronic
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Beware the Forensics Label
Many sales people attach the label “forensics” to their security and compliance analysis tools, and that can be very misleading. In law enforcement circles, “forensics” means a well-defined set of discovery and investigative processes that hold up in court [...]
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Implications for Nonprofit Organizations 2007-06-11 06:54:02 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Implications
for Nonprofit Organizations
A collaboration between BoardSource and independent sector has produced the following report on the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on nonprofits.
BoardSource and INDEPENDENT SECTOR wish to thank Dan Moore, Vice President for Public Affairs, GuideStar; Tom Hyatt, Principal, Ober Kaler; and Paul Nelson, [...]
four part series on electronic data discovery Tools & Your Enterprises 2007-06-11 05:26:44 Here is a four part series
i found on the internet about Electronic data Discovery (EDD) TOOLS.
Michael Osborne has been getting a lot of vendor calls lately pitching a new breed of products, typically called electronic data discovery (EDD) tools. These tools promise to investigate historical data to uncover security breaches, compliance failures and plain [...] Read more:Tools
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Effective Electronic Discovery: Who, What, Where, When 2007-05-27 05:41:22 There are a number of reasons that electronic discovery continues to make news, attorneys and paralegals are demanding standards to govern electronic discovery, and courts around the country are considering (some are already implementing) local rules to change how attorneys manage the electronic portion of discovery in [...] Read more:Electronic
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Electronic Discovery Best Practices 2007-05-26 06:01:58 I. INTRODUCTION
[1] The concept of electronic discovery is still somewhat intimidating to many attorneys, but those who have learned to implement electronic discovery best practices are enjoying the advantages it offers, which include greater control over document review and production processes as well as significant cost reductions. Whether you come to the discovery process as [...] Read more:Electronic
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Don’t let electronic evidence bury your firm 2007-05-25 05:37:28 By Sharon D. Nelson, Esq. and John W. Simek
Electronic Evidence How vastly the world has changed in the past decade. Today, more than 90 percent of our documents are electronic and most never will be converted to paper. We send e-mails at a frenzied pace — North America alone transmits more than 4 trillion e-mails [...]
Doing E-Discovery Is Best Left to Outside Experts 2007-05-24 05:13:56 Hunton & Williams has 17 offices for its Richmond, Va.-based firm, with one central litigation support center for helping its lawyers with their caseloads. That center is a 10,000-square-foot facility with between 35 and 40 staffers who handle complicated
tasks, and that increasingly has meant collecting, sorting and analyzing electronic evidence.
Hunton is rare in that it [...] Read more:Discovery
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How to Avoid Common Pitfalls 2007-05-23 04:55:02 Over the past few years, many multinational companies, and the law firms that service them, have made a concentrated effort to control the management of data created, stored, or sent overseas. It is no easy task. An estimated 99 percent of new information is stored electronically, mostly on computer hard disk. This is a tremendous [...] Read more:Avoid
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Controlling the Accidental Release of Digital Information 2007-07-09 06:49:43 In an age when virtually all documents are created on computers, it has become second nature to electronically share these materials through e-mail, extranets, and USB flash drives. Unfortunately, many people don’t fully understand exactly what information is contained in the files they are distributing. In the legal community, where clients routinely entrust sensitive and [...] Read more:Controlling
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Defining A Standard for Admitting Electronic Evidence at Trial 2007-07-09 06:47:29 While many attorneys and their clients focus on the importance of preserving electronic files and data to minimize the risk of evidence spoliation, far fewer give the same attention to the seemingly straight-forward process of validating these materials for admission into evidence. One inadvertent result is that while standards for resolving electronic evidence spoliation allegations [...] Read more:Standard
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Finding the Line Between E-Discovery Expert and Fact Witness Testimony 2007-07-09 06:45:39 Digital information is an increasingly common part of civil and criminal litigation. Electronic mail messages and documents-or evidence that such materials are suspiciously missing-are powerfully persuasive pieces of evidence that can make or break a case. Courts recognize the importance of electronic files and their analysis, and they routinely admit such materials into evidence. However, [...] Read more:Discovery
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electronic discovery-in-2010 2007-07-09 04:05:15 Michael Osborne has been getting a lot of vendor calls lately pitching a new breed of products, typically called electronic data discovery (EDD) tools. These tools pro
The past 10 years have proved that the escalating costs of data collection and review in discovery, as well as the complexity of the systems themselves, [...]
An introduction to Computer Forensics 2007-07-07 05:59:44 Computer Forensics
is the process of investigating electronic devices or computer media for the purpose of discovering and analyzing available, deleted, or “hidden” information that may serve as useful evidence in supporting both claims and defenses of a legal matter as well as it can helpful when data have been accidentally deleted or lost due [...] Read more:Computer
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How Data Recovery Could Become Critical For Business Survival And What To Do In Case Of Data Loss 2007-07-07 05:44:55 A Scenario of What Could Happen
Just imagine this scenario. You own a highly profitable specialty retail store that stock thousands of parts. These parts are procured from the best sources that you have identified over many years, based on product quality, timely deliveries, reasonable prices and customer support. You have also fixed the re-order [...] Read more:Recovery
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Electronic Discovery-Why aren’t more law firms using it 2007-07-07 05:43:39 As the technology age creeps upon us and forces us reevaluate our personal lives in everything that we do, the same can be said for how lawyers practice. Partners who have been tied to their pen and paper presentations are now being confronted with a phenomenon that has started to pick up speed since the [...] Read more:Electronic
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Implementing Threats, Risk And Security Audits 2007-07-07 05:41:50 People used to close business deals with a handshake.
They looked one another in the eye. Today, more and more transactions are electronic, anonymous and, in too many cases, fraudulent. Any organization that stores or moves important information on an electronic network is putting its information at risk. A criminal on the other side of [...]
Solving Crime With Computer Forensics 2007-07-07 05:40:31 Computer Forensics
is the scientific study of computers or computer related data in relation to an investigation by a law enforcement agency for use in a court of law. While this technology may be as old as computers themselves, the advances in technology are constantly revising this science.
In the technological old days, computer forensics was [...] Read more:Computer
How To Use Metadata As An Examination Tool 2007-07-07 05:38:06 By Nicholas J. Deleault
In today’s computer dependant world, the zealous advocate must be able to navigate his way through every conceivable form of discovery in order to effectively represent his or her client. Failure to seek the appropriate records or the failure to respond to discovery requests with the appropriate electronic discovery knowledge could potentially [...]
Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants 2007-07-30 05:02:08 The first electronic database I supervised in litigation ended up costing a dollar a page. And that was before a single lawyer had looked at any of it.
Making TIFF images, using Optical Character Recognition software to create searchable text, entering basic descriptive coding for each document and exporting all this data into a usable format [...] Read more:Rising
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Importance Of Recovery Planning 2007-08-07 04:47:09 Disasters are common in the world today, from nature to car wrecks. In the computer industry, disasters aren’t any different. They can come in the form of an office fire, computer crashes, hard drive failure, missing IT documents, stolen hardware, and many other forms. Disasters can be very traumatic and stressful, although there are actions [...] Read more:Recovery
Incorporate a disaster recovery plan 2007-08-14 06:54:08 How to incorporate a disaster recovery plan that would be faster and safer?
Nordural ehf’s backup system needed to incorporate a Disaster Recovery plan that would reduce the backup window from ten hours to two-three hours.
A Disaster Recovery Plan is a coordinated activity to enable the recovery of IT/business systems due to a disruption. Disaster [...]
Electronic Data Discovery introduction 2007-08-24 01:17:03 Electronic Data Discovery
introduction
Electronic data discovery quickly is becoming mainstream in civil discovery. Recent surveys confirm that more than 90 percent of all documents produced since 1999 were created in digital form. You don’t need surveys to prove that point; just walk into any office these days and the first thing [...] Read more:Electronic
Authenticating E-Mail Discovery as Evidence 2007-08-28 03:38:49 With the recent passage of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the legal press has been filled with articles containing e-discovery advice. At some point, “e-discovery” will need to be converted into “e-evidence” for the purposes of summary judgment or trial. When you’re faced with having spent your clients’ time and money [...] Read more:Discovery
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EDD Dangers Sneak Under the Radar 2007-08-30 03:51:31 Shadow information technology, sometimes known as rogue IT or consumer IT, represents pockets of information technology lurking within a company that operate outside the organization’s IT department. Ranging from ad hoc databases and backups to portable media that leave the workplace, shadow IT is a phenomenon whose importance should be clear to litigators.
Companies and [...] Read more:Radar
How to overcome E-Discovery Challenges with New Technologies 2007-09-21 01:21:46 Business communications are now dominated by electronic storage and devices like emails, hard drives, flash drives etc… and the volume of data used and stored is increasing at astonishing rate. Here comes the Electronic discovery. After the recent amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) which recognizes increasing [...] Read more:Discovery
Letting EDD Evidence Speak for Itself 2007-09-20 00:59:00 By now, you undoubtedly have mastered the new electronic data discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. You keep up with the rapidly evolving case law. You probably even know the difference between a computer forensic expert and an EDD vendor, and the differences in the types of services [...] Read more:Letting
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Intrusion detection guide 2007-09-13 02:10:28 With the growing use of internet the threats attached to it are also growing. As more and more people are getting dependent on internet, the hackers are inventing new ways to intrude into their systems and cause havoc for them. By intruding or by gaining unauthorized access to their computers the hackers can access confidential [...] Read more:Intrusion
Dangers in E-Discovery 2007-09-06 01:00:38 The big paperless case in the sky is coming your way and, believe it or not, you’re going to embrace it. Instead of tripping over boxes of documents, you will be enjoying all the benefits of using highly compressed electronic documents. Those who still scoff at high technology are costing their [...] Read more:Discovery