In today’s litigious environment, many organizations are feeling the added pressure and burden of significantly rising eDiscovery costs. To cut these legal costs, some IT organizations are automating records management procedures for information stored in archives, local file servers, or other devices that they manage. However, the proliferation of content created on user workstations and laptops has created new eDiscovery and legal hold challenges because typically, enterprise policy standards and governance controls do not extend to these critical business assets.
In contrast, Trusted Edge from FileTek is a unique records declaration and information classification, management, and archive platform that helps organizations proactively prepare for potential eDiscovery initiatives. Trusted Edge automatically extends enterprise polices affecting content collection, disposition, and legal hold management to information created at the edge – on all desktops, laptops, and file shares – throughout the enterprise.
Trusted Edge can automatically intercept, classify, tag, and move information assets as they are created and read. A set of managed policies drive the system and enable Trusted Edge to understand the contents of documents and email as they flow through the enterprise. By understanding asset content, Trusted Edge has the power to make intelligent decisions about how each document or email message should be processed and filed.
As litigation and eDiscovery costs continue to rise, the FileTek Trusted Edge solution delivers a cost-correct return on investment by:
- Enabling automatic content classification, preservation, lock-down, and collection at all user workstations – regardless if a workstation is network-connected or offline.
- Reducing eDiscovery costs often stemming from over-collecting non-relevant information for review.
- Mitigating risk caused by inappropriate content deletion or data spoliation.
- Eliminating traditional desktop legal hold methods such as hard disk imaging and full desktop spidering
- Effectively locking down content in place for workstations and laptops during the legal hold process
