Guidance Software Announces EnCase® eDiscovery Integration with Dropbox for Business

Global News

30
Mar
2015

Editor

Guidance Software, the World Leader in Digital Investigations™, announced the availability of EnCase® eDiscovery with search and collection capabilities for electronically stored information (ESI) within Dropbox for Business. Dropbox for Business provides teams with the power, security, and performance of Dropbox, along with robust administrative capabilities that give IT teams visibility and control over company data.

"Our customers understand the value that Dropbox’s collaboration network provides for increasing productivity and safely communicating and sharing with the native applications they already use," commented Patrick Heim, Head of Trust and Security at Dropbox. "Coupled with EnCase eDiscovery, we believe that Dropbox for Business provides a secure platform for businesses giving them visibility and access to their employees’ Dropbox accounts, especially in the case of litigation or compliance requirements."

Together with Dropbox for Business, EnCase eDiscovery enables defensible search and the ability to collect and preserve ESI in Dropbox for Business accounts. EnCase eDiscovery makes it possible to respond to litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations while keeping relevant ESI in check. This new implementation leverages the Dropbox for Business API which enables developers to build a wide range of integrations that further support critical business needs for the companies that run on Dropbox for Business.

"EnCase eDiscovery is considered the gold standard for collection because it is capable of providing visibility to any data at any time stored in any format," remarked Chad McManamy, Esq., Vice President, E-Discovery and Assistant General Counsel for Guidance Software. "Our integration with Dropbox for Business gives our customers the ability to perform collections from file sync and share platforms in the same way they can collect from endpoints, servers and other types of information repositories. We believe that this capability gives us an edge over our competition."

Ranked as a leader in e-discovery software by Gartner four years in a row, EnCase eDiscovery is a comprehensive and scalable solution for effectively managing electronically stored documents, and significantly reducing e-discovery risk and costs. EnCase eDiscovery provides control over the entire e-discovery workflow, from legal hold to identification, collection, preservation, processing, first-pass review, best-in-class early case assessment (ECA), review, and production capabilities.

Legal and risk management teams gain the following capabilities from the EnCase eDiscovery integration with Dropbox for Business:

• Instant Visibility of content housed in Dropbox for Business. EnCase eDiscovery can quickly scan Dropbox for Business and identify potentially relevant ESI based on specific criteria. Legal and IT support teams can access Dropbox for Business data in a forensically sound manner as the integration keeps metadata and content intact, then makes it available to dispersed collaboration groups as needed.
• Centralized Access to data that may be required for e-discovery, increasing speed while preventing inadvertent sharing of sensitive data.
• Rapid Response to Legal Matters becomes a critical advantage in responding to regulatory requests. By only collecting relevant ESI, workloads are reduced, along with risks and costs associated with manual procedures, such as copying files and burning DVDs.
• Lifecycle Control with a defensible process for retention and deletion (dispensation) of all data relevant in legal matters, whether stored on premise or on DropBox for Business.