E-Discovery: Information Security Division
ForEDis® - E-Discovery Service
ForEDis® is a service provided by the affiliation of Wires Jolley LLP and OPSEC Risk Management Services Inc. to promote focused, proportional and timely recovery and use of probative digital evidence while protecting privilege, intellectual property and privacy.
E-evidence, digital data, is the fastest growing and largest source of data in most organizations. A single 2 Gigabyte USB drive can contain the equivalent of over nine (9) stories of printed data; organizations possess thousands of Gigabytes of data. Our capacity to create and retain data has now outpaced the human ability to fully understand and manage these large volumes. Many companies, and their legal support teams, are not prepared to deal with the challenges presented by need to retain, preserve, collect, analyze, process and disclose this type and quantity of evidence.
To help our clients meet the practices outlined in the Guidelines for Discovery of Electronic Documents in Ontario, We offer our unique ForEDis® E-Discovery services. ForEDis® utilizes a combination of proprietary E-Discovery methodologies, solid legal experience and the most current technology to provide you, our client, with a new, cost-effective and proportional, approach to the daunting task of managing your ESI requirements. Our unique listings of services support our clients; from the initial fact finding and strategy stages, through the detailed collection, analysis and presentation phases of E-Discovery.
Our proprietary methodologies for E-Discovery conform to the Sedona Principles and our service follows the basic E-Discovery model.
ForEDis® distinguishes itself from the competition by providing a service that is:
Proportional
- Significant reductions in cost
- E-View© and E-Snapshot© services for initial ESI assessments
- Pre-processing determination of cost boundaries
- Preview of ESI to determine cost-effective collection and preservation strategies
- Large data sets reduced with advanced analysis
- Analysis in days or weeks, not months
Focused
- E-View© and E-Snapshot© service to support responsive decisions
- Logical and direct analysis to determine scope of your ESI exposure
- Advanced analysis tools and algorithms
- Online progress tracking
Cost Effective
- No Down Time, Active environment processes for identification of data sources
- Quick and effective reduction of large data sets using unique processes
- Fully Prepared case files for major legal software, including: Summation©, Concordance© and Case Map©
- Incorporation, sorting, correlation and analysis of third party sourced electronic data
Expedient
- Processing measured in days and hours, NOT Months
- Response team availability
- Remote services, provides E-Discovery support anytime, anywhere
- Patent pending remote collection and preservation techniques
Support Services
In addition to our comprehensive ForEDis® service, OPSEC offers a variety of supportive services that have been designed to accommodate various levels of customer need and complement a full E-Discovery approach. Each service option is flexible, responsive, and fully customizable to suit the client's needs, the situation, proportionality and cost effectiveness. These services include:
E-View©
E-Discovery can seem onerous and unmanageable, it is often difficult to know where to start or how. Our E-View© service provides you with a preview of your ESI situation and arms you with the information you need to make accurate and timely decisions regarding your potential risk exposures. Our data snapshot approach helps you identify your data, assess your potential exposure, determine best strategies and informs you for E-Discovery. Key features include:
- Logical identification of Active Data
- Determination of Data Densities
- ESI Collection strategies
- Preservation of data requirements and strategies
- Identification of Potential Risks
- Planning for the E-Discovery process
E-Snapshot©
Information is power; and E-Snapshot© is your first step towards gaining the knowledge you need. Having the abilities to quickly identify your data; assess your risks; and plan effective mitigation strategies are at the heart of any successful business response. Key E-Discovery issues addressed through the E-Snapshot© process include:
- Collection of representative ESI
- Preservation of representative ESI
- Focused Data Analysis
- Identification of Custodians and persons of interest
- Definition of file categories and data parameters
- Location of sources of potentially relevant ESI
- Preparation of refined search terms and discovery parameters
- Categorization of Archived and In-active data sources
- Determination of Proportionality Issues
- ESI Risk Assessment
- E-Discovery Strategies
- Cost Determination Strategies
OPSEC Remote© Services
Data moves at the speed of light and sometimes you need to as well. When your needs are immediate, or on-site response is not practical, OPSEC Remote offers you the same level of service using advanced remote technologies.
E-View Remote©
Our E-View Remote© service includes all the normal features of a locally conducted E-View©, but focuses on:
- Scanning and identification of your networks, hosts and data sources for active data
- Determination of Data Densities
- Remote Identification of Data sources
- Intelligence assessment of open source and online corporate data
E-Discovery Remote©
E-Discovery Remote© extends the features of a locally conducted analysis, with the flexibility of an immediate response, regardless of your location, and without the time constraints imposed by travel distances or work environment. In addition to the features of a locally conducted E-Snapshot© or E-Discovery© service, our remote service provides you with these additional features:
- After-hours access to data sources, minimal impacts
- Flexibility to work across time zones and jurisdictions
- Processing of multiple sites or locations
- Processing of telecommuter remote computers
- Targeted collection of logical, physical or custodian data
- Pre-collection evaluations
- Remote analysis and assessment
- Proportionality to determine requirements before costs
ESI-Online© (E-Discovery Statistical Interface Online)
Unlike other firms, we believe that the processing and analysis of your information should not be conducted in a "Black Box" environment. Our ESI-Online© (E-Discovery Statistical Interface Online) site provides you with:
- Real time data, regarding the progress of your service
- Tracking of everything from hard drive preservation to the number of processed custodian documents
- Secure access and encrypted back end storage, your real data is never exposed
- Ease of use, just log in, click your management interface page and view your data summaries
- Graphical reporting, timely, simple and effective
- Secure viewing of response activities, through our online service, is available in limited and unique circumstances
If you need to observe E-Discovery response actions or processes, you can do it from the convenience and comfort of your own computer.
