by admin-jon | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Computer Investigations, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Software, Preservation, Tips & Tricks
A hash value results from a calculation (hash algorithm) that can be performed on a string of text, electronic file, or entire hard drive contents. The result is also called a checksum, hash code, or hashes. Hash values are used to identify and filter duplicate files...
by admin-jon | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog, Electronic Discovery, Electronic Discovery Collection, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Software
E-Discovery Collections also known as Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED) or Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) can include a review of all the data stored on employee desktop or laptop computers, company servers, camera cards, cell phones, smart phones, GPS devices,...
by admin-jon | Dec 7, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Software, Preservation
As our electronically stored information (ESI) data universe continues to grow, we are hearing about increasing storage capacities. The size of a project in terabytes (TB – 1024 Gigabytes) comes up frequently and is often the amount of data that has to be...
by admin-jon | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Definition, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation
Email Collection refers to the identification and isolation of electronic mail (email) messages that pertain to a specific legal matter in civil litigation cases. What gets collected What is actually being collected during email collections can be one of two things:...
by admin-jon | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Software
PST Regeneration is used during electronic discovery processing or even during an ESI collection. A Personal Folder File (PST) is a container file created by Microsoft Outlook which stores email messages and other data (i.e. contacts, calendar entries, tasks, to do...
by admin-jon | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation, Software
ESI (Electronically Stored Information) is the general term for all of the data stored on the hard drives, camera cards, cell phones, GPS devices, digital video recorders, digital answering systems, thumb drives, RAID arrays and any other form of electronic media...
by admin-jon | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation
Active File Collection refers to the collection of files that are active (not deleted) and pertain to a legal matter or legal hold. In most civil litigation cases, extensive forensic investigations that look at deleted files are unnecessary or too expensive. Thus,...
by admin-jon | Nov 24, 2010 | Blog, Computer Investigations, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, Tips & Tricks
A couple weeks ago, I outlined what computer forensics and electronic discovery have in common and how they differ. I’d like to expand on this topic by identifying some common obstacles encountered when using popular computer forensic software for typical electronic...
by admin-jon | Nov 24, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation, Software
Each day, corporate IT managers, computer forensic examiners, and litigation support professionals are tasked with performing ESI collections for relevant files which reside in file shares, on client systems, and other popular data sources. The content may include...
by admin-jon | Jan 30, 2009 | Blog, Electronic Discovery, Software
We will be attending LegalTech New York and I wanted to invite you to come by and visit our booth. We will be in booth #429 on the 1st floor of the exhibit hall. There are several updates to our software applications that we will be demonstrating, and if you attend, I...
