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Why existing IT solutions are
falling short
It’s challenging times for organisations
and professionals engaged in forensic
analysis and e-discovery. Investigations
are multiplying and diversifying – there
are more of them and new types of
cases arise all the time.
Spurred by global trends such as BYOD
(bring your own device) proliferating
privacy regulation and cloud computing,
the environment for conducting effective
investigations has become increasingly
complex and more difficult to negotiate
than ever before.
Across all sectors, investigations are
becoming more collaborative, now
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and complexity increase, meeting
deadlines and reaching beneficial
outcomes becomes more difficult.
The challenges aren’t limited by industry,
either. Whether it’s corporations, public
sector organisations, law firms or
service providers, they are all affected
It’s challenging times
for organisations
and professionals
engaged in forensic
analysis and
e-discovery.
by a backlog of data and the need for
collaboration, as well as ever evolving
information types.
TOD EWASKO, VICE PRESIDENT
OF TECHNICAL ENGINEERING
AT ACCESSDATA
frequently drawing in staff from HR and
other departments who are not legal
professionals but need to interact with
forensic technologies.
What this means is that existing forensic
tools and technologies can’t always
provide the kind of performance needed
to keep up with the growing investigation
load and can’t accommodate the
changing nature of how investigations
must be managed.
Forensics professionals are confronting
much larger data loads, with new,
complex information types tapped from a
growing diversity of sources. As volumes
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Today’s corporations are dealing with
enormous amounts of digital data, all
being shared among teams, departments,
global locations and devices. Even in
industries as varied as healthcare to
finance to energy, enterprises need
to manage digital investigations and
e-discovery faster, more efficiently and
more securely, while reducing cost.
Additionally, varying data privacy
regulations, as well as regional risks and
communication practices, must all be
taken into consideration to ensure data
security and improved efficiency. Finding
tools to help you create the appropriate
balance between collecting relevant
evidence for investigations and maintaining
privacy rights should be a priority.
Public sector organisations are
perennially challenged by cash-strapped
budgets as well as an increased backlog
from growing, more complex caseloads.
More than ever, it’s critical that teams
can zero in on relevant evidence fast
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