Welcome to the eDiscovery, Digital Evidence and Cybersecurity Law Blog
The information security and legal worlds began traveling on an accelerated convergence path in 2006. Two major developments contributing to this convergence: The 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules...
View ArticleDefinitions Matter in Electronic Discovery
Court decisions focusing on the format of production for electronically stored information (ESI) have typically taken a hard line on inartfully crafted discovery requests. The Federal Rules of Civil...
View ArticleWhy the CSO/CISO Should Care About eDiscovery - Part 2 -
Legal risks related to electronic discovery present perhaps the most significant emerging enterprise information risk, but this new risk also provides a unique opportunity for the CSO/CISO to increase...
View ArticleSecurity Implications of "Custody and Control"
The terms "custody" and "control" should be very familiar to cyber-security stakeholders. We are, after all, concerned with internal security issues pertaining to role, access and location management...
View ArticleWhy The CSO/CISO Should Care About eDiscovery Part -4-
Part -4- Recent Landmark Legal Precedents and OpinionsTwo important court decisions indicate an early trend underscoring the importance of eDiscovery and digital evidentiary issues to the CSO/CISO. The...
View ArticleWhy the CSO/CISO Should Care About eDiscovery Part -5-
Part -5- eDiscovery Leads to Digital EvidenceThe path to enhanced CISO understanding of the importance (to the enterprise) of rock solid digital evidence generation must first traverse the twists and...
View ArticleAuthentication Requirement for Digital Evidence Admissibility
The Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California issued a decision in October following the Vinhnee approach to digital evidence authentication. It bears repeating that in order to have...
View ArticleWhy the CSO/CISO Should Care About eDiscovery Part -7-
Part -7- The Federal Rules of EvidenceThe Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) provide a Court with rules about whether and upon what circumstances evidence may be considered admissible at trial. These...
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