eDiscovery Journal

Teams Collections Complications – MC261534

M365 Teams collections are already challenging corporate eDiscovery and provider teams with hidden SharePoint and OneDrive sites. Today’s Major Change Update Notification (MC261534 - reproduced at end for non-admins) covers the June-July roll out of Roadmap ID 81945 that dramatically expands custodian’s ability to associate existing/other Teams sites and automatically create private channel sites. More importantly, non-admin custodians are losing the ability to manually [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-06-14T10:55:15-05:00June 14th, 2021|Info Gov, Essay, Investigation, Collectors, Preservation, Collection, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Search|0 Comments

Ongoing M365 Tenant Upgrades/Migrations

Last year I found and published eDiscovery/Content search errors related to Microsoft 365’s ongoing changes to tenant search infrastructure and the new version of Advanced eDiscovery (AED). I have recently encountered similar AED search issues after another way of upgrades was rolled out to new clients. Given the monstrous global scale of corporate M365 adoption, it is entirely possible that this is the same [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-05-24T16:07:44-05:00May 24th, 2021|Essay, Preservation, Collection, Content Management, Search|0 Comments

Enterprise Classification – Minimizing the Impact of Data Breaches

Typical Response Tasks · Preservation · Forensics · Log analysis · Malware reverse engineering · Surveillance · Remediation · Endpoint detection & response · Exfiltration – eDiscovery · Physical security · Regulatory compliance · Consumer notification · Legal response · Law enforcement liaison The latest Microsoft Exchange breach moved downstream to 60,000+ SMB victims from the Solar Wind’s hack that targeted Microsoft and government [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-03-07T15:47:22-06:00March 7th, 2021|Analytics, Essay, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Search|0 Comments

Exterro and the eDiscovery Patent Game

I fell down the eDiscovery patent rabbit hole while researching Exterro’s recent press release on the patent granted on their Gateway Coordinator. You should never take press releases, white papers, blogs, etc. at face value. Go to the source when possible. In my USPTO search for the announced patent, I stumbled across 7 more Exterro patents covering workflow management, custodian monitoring and predictive search. [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-01-11T09:22:38-06:00January 8th, 2021|Provider, Platform, Essay, Collectors, Content Management, Architecture, Purchase|0 Comments

It’s a Jump to the Left – Relativity Acquires VerQu

Relativity’s acquisition of VerQu makes a lot of sense from the corporate RelativityOne customer perspective. Once integrated, the VerQu Hydra connectors have the potential to dramatically expand the scope of holds, in-place searches and collections. The pandemic has escalated adoption of Teams, video conferencing and a myriad of collaboration platforms that Hydra already gives customers access to. In a happy coincidence, VerQu was on [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-01-06T12:51:50-06:00January 6th, 2021|United States, Info Gov, Platform, Investigation, Corporate, Essay, Preservation, Collectors, Collection, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Purchase, Management|0 Comments

Label Trade Secrets to Protect Them

The matter and article highlight the increased risk that corporate trade secrets and confidential data may be disclosed by the largely remote corporate workforce. I appreciate the well-structured guidance and concrete action steps proposed. The authors recommendation to perform an IP audit is a good starting point. However, I would add the need for automated categorization solutions that flag and highlight files and communications [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-12-11T15:03:48-06:00December 11th, 2020|Info Gov, Corporate, News, Compliance, Privacy, Security, Content Management|0 Comments

Unlimited Mailboxes = Email Hoarding?

The pace of corporate migrations to Microsoft 365 (the new name for Office 365) has accelerated over the last nine years (2011 launch). I have supported these migrations of most of my long term clients with policy reviews, preservation audits, workflow adaptions and more. Two to five years post-migration my health checks and annual discovery metrics reports tell a universal tale of bloated mailboxes. [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-11-30T16:03:39-06:00November 30th, 2020|Info Gov, Essay, Analytics, Preservation, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Purchase|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Binfer.com – What is your Deliver SLA?

I had a good briefing with Binfer’s head of sales, Nate Van Drunen, earlier this week. Binfer.com provides secured (AES 256) direct transfer of large files. I have spent this week back in the client trenches subbing in for a lit support manager. That has been a timely reminder of the transferring ever larger collections to providers and firms. Really savvy techs can navigate [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-10-24T12:43:38-05:00October 24th, 2020|Provider, Essay, Corporate, Firm, Government, Content Management, Architecture|0 Comments

Know What Employees Have Before They Leave With It

By Greg Buckles|2020-10-19T17:51:43-05:00October 19th, 2020|Info Gov, Investigation, Compliance, Preservation, News, Privacy, Security, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Management|0 Comments

Is Categorization the Key to Cleaning Your Data Garage?

Way back in 2006 I was part of the Symantec team evaluating the Orchestria classification engine for a potential acquisition (CA later bought them). While the security folks were all focused on DLP, I wanted to use Symantec’s anti-virus root kit to classify unstructured files on local and network shares. They were my nemesis in my prior corporate litsupport director role. As Autonomy found [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-10-08T10:42:05-05:00October 8th, 2020|Provider, Info Gov, Analytics, News, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Expiration, Management|0 Comments