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Aungate Legal Hold Overview
Until a case is resolved, organizations facing litigation have an immediate legal obligation to preserve all information that might be pertinent to the given case. This includes electronic information stored on network content servers managed by the IT group and information stored on desktop or laptop machines directly under end-user control. As soon as an organization has expectation of legal action (even before the official receipt of any legal documents), all deletion of potentially relevant information must immediately cease. Scheduled deletion processes managed by the IT group and ad hoc deletion performed by the end users themselves must be either suspended or modified to reflect the litigation hold requirements or spoliation will result.
Complying with these requirements is a challenge that grows increasingly daunting with the size and distribution of an organization's user population. In the early days of electronic discovery, most organizations responded reactively. Information from corporate servers was provided by undertaking manually intensive and costly media restoration projects using truckloads of backup tapes. Information from corporate desktop and laptop machines was collected through equally arduous and expensive manual processes with teams of people flying around the world to visit each and every desktop and create disk images. In the case of the desktop information, this approach was undermined by its reliance on the users themselves, some of whom were actively endeavoring to modify or delete information to cover their own tracks.
Increasingly, organizations are adopting a more proactive approach by using the Autonomy ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution (EAS) or Digital Safe to capture and secure corporate information. This proactive approach enables organizations to respond quickly and cost-effectively when they receive an electronic discovery request. Both products support the concept of legal hold, enabling organizations to specifically preserve the information that is required for legal purposes. With the announcement of the Aungate Legal Hold product late in 2007, ZANTAZ has extended its proactive Information Risk Management solutions to cover the corporate desktops and laptops that have represented the largest area of lingering vulnerability for many organizations. The Aungate Desktop Legal Hold product identifies relevant information directly on the desktops and laptops around the network, copies that information to a central repository and also locks it down at the disk sector level in its original location to ensure its ongoing availability.
With Autonomy ZANTAZ proactive Information Risk Management solutions, organizations of all sizes can cost- effectively identify all potentially significant information for each legal matter that emerges, and can immediately and indefinitely preserve it, whether it is contained in the corporate archives or on a user's desktop or laptop machine.
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Citigroup, 2007
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