A growing number of enterprises—and their IT staffs—are becoming increasingly concerned about the range of threats posed by electronic attack. Couple that with the high incidence of business litigation, and the high regulatory barriers, present in the US and EU, and you’ll see why computer forensics is such a rapidly growing field. One reason for this rapid growth is that there are relatively few standards for what “forensics” actually means. From an Exchange perspective, there aren’t really any solid definitions either...

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Mention eDiscovery (or electronic discovery) in the litigation marketplace and you will hear a lot of oaning and groaning from judges and attorneys alike; the process has, without doubt, significantly added to the cost of litigation, as well as being incredibly time-consuming. To add to their woes, eDiscovery often turns up data that is irrelevant, not to mention that the growth of electronic data has created a big headache in managing all that data! This data not only needs to be managed, but managed cost-effectively and there are principally two ways of achieving this...

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If you work for a large corporation, you hear lots of talk about corporate responsibility, and that's great. But I can't help but point out that, whether it is intentional, there is a massive and growing hypocrisy in the corporate world when it comes to prosecuting crime...it's anecdotally clear that most companies simply don't call the authorities when they experience criminal losses through online attacks. We in the industry know this, but I wonder if the assumptions we make as to why this is so are correct. It's especially important to consider this now, as we're in the middle of what can only be called a "conversion convergence" which continues to see increases in use of the Internet to monetize stolen information and to launder ill-gotten gains...

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There is little argument that cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms have created a paradigm shift in enterprise technology and IT as a whole. Companies of all sizes – both public and private – seeking to reduce storage costs, improve overall efficiency and integration with partners, are increasingly turning to the cloud to house information and run essential business functions remotely...Accordingly for legal professionals, these questions loom: How have SaaS-based platforms historically impacted the legal market and specifically e-discovery practices? How will cloud-based applications impact corporate legal departments and their outside counsel in the future?

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Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators and illustrates best practices for collection, preservation, search and production of social media data. Also highlighted in this paper are examples of numerous unique metadata fields for individual social media items that provide important information to establish authenticity, if properly collected and preserved...

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