ediscovery & Forensics

AccessData has announced the release of Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 5 which includes data visualisation and explicit image detection (EID) out of the box.

This month NuLegal celebrated the commencement of its 10th electronic courtroom project (“eTrial”) in the Australian Courts with a solution powered by EDT.

A recent article in Image and Data Manager highlighted the report of a Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry (QPI) into the public release of confidential Fitzgerald Inquiry documents.  During the Inquiry, the Crime and Misconduct Commission’s IT Manager, Cliff Horwood was grilled over his inability to retrieve certain information about internal emails requested under a summons.

Ediscovery and data analysis firm Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, has formed a technology partnership with Cellebrite, a global provider of mobile data extraction, decoding and analysis solutions. 

AccessData has announces the release of Summation 5.0 featuring an interoperable FTK license, Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”) and free training.

Logicube has announced the launch of a new forensic imaging solution, the Forensic Falcon, that is able to copy hard disk images at up to 20GB/min. It can also image and verify from 4 source drives to 5 destination drives and allows users to image to and from a network location

Companies in most Western countries must take extreme care to protect any sensitive information they store relating to employees or customers. In Australia and New Zealand, we may soon be held to even higher standards.

KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, has announced upgrades to its discovery management technology, Discovery Radar, which helps corporate law departments and law firms cut e-discovery costs and simplify management of large, complex litigation.

Cloud email management vendor Mimecast claims there is growing adoption of a new public API that simplifies eDiscovery efforts by providing secure access to Mimecast's cloud-based email archive. The new API can be seamlessly integrated with other eDiscovery solutions, quickly giving customers powerful search capabilities and comprehensive data intelligence, resulting in reduced compliance risks.

On the final hearing day of a Queensland parliamentary inquiry into the release of Fitzgerald Inquiry documents, Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) Commissioner George Fox defended Director of Information Peter Duell, who has taken ultimate responsibility for changing the embargo date on sensitive documents.

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