eDiscovery for Corporate Compliance & FRCP Legal Discovery

IT has always had the charter to manage the storage and protection of data, but in recent years new responsibilities have emerged to include data security, long-term archival strategy and the basics of regulatory compliance requirements. IT is also being called upon to manage detailed data discovery and compliance requests, which shift into high gear when legal discovery becomes a necessity. Compliance and legal discovery in civil cases are complex issues for IT because they usually involve large amounts of distributed files and data. The recent exponential expansion in electronic document volume poses unique problems for the legal profession and corporations. Discovery costs and time requirements can cripple any litigation, investigation or regulatory compliance review. These government regulations all can impact an IT organization and pose significant challenges.

  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999—Protects consumer’s financial private information.
  • HIPAA—The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
  • Sarbanes-Oxley—The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002
  • 2006 changes to FRCP (Federal Rules for Civil Procedures) rules

Abrevity’s FileData Classifier enables legal, security and compliance teams to work closely with the storage IT managers to quickly and easily develop a data management strategy to easily meet compliance initiatives or respond to legal discovery situations.

Key compliance and legal discovery capabilities of Abrevity FileData Classifier are:

  • Comprehensive FRCP legal discovery tool including file identification, preservation and litigation holds based on metadata, content keywords and patterns
  • Enables global enforcement of regulatory compliance policies easily identifying files with sensitive information subject to regulation
  • Preserves file ownership, permissions mappings and “chain of custody” information
  • Mitigates the risk of sensitive information leakage by enabling easy and global identification of “files at risk”
  • Performs pattern recognition to identify files with SSN’s, credit card numbers, custom numeric patterns, phrases, etc.