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Financial Security Case Studies
Company Mandated To Meet Discovery Request
Forensics processing helps meet "impossible" deadlines
A company had contracted with a government agency to provide services for the agency's employees. The government agency alleged that the company had violated its agreement, and filed a lawsuit. Discovery requests were onerous, to say the least; production of over one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes, the equivalent of 375,000,000 document pages) of data was mandated by the court. Almost all the data resided on backup tapes. It would be impossible for the company to meet this request using manual methods, and they lacked the internal technical expertise to produce the massive amounts of data involved in a cohesive electronic format.
The company turned to NTI to compile the data necessary to meet the discovery request. To narrow the scope of meaningful data, we used forensics utilities to search for relevance and responsiveness – a necessity in a discovery request of this magnitude under the given time constraints. This enabled us to better focus our tape conversion efforts. Using further forensics processes, we converted the company's MS Exchange database (which housed the company's email archives, the focus of the discovery efforts) to PST files, sorted by user. NTI was thus able to help the company meet its seemingly impossible deadline. As the case unfolds, we've been conducting ongoing analyses to keep the company in compliance with the discovery mandate.
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