Channel Marker » e-discovery http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker A SearchITChannel.com blog Tue, 21 May 2013 21:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 CompTIA shares some discoveries (er, research) about e-discovery http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/comptia-shares-some-discoveries-er-research-about-e-discovery/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/comptia-shares-some-discoveries-er-research-about-e-discovery/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 19:28:13 +0000 Heather Clancy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/?p=3064 A new study from the CompTIA tech industry association indicates that 53 percent of IT professionals expect the use of so-called e-discovery — or the discovery process in civil litigation that is using electronic information as evidence — to increase over the next several years.

The data was gleaned out of a survey conducted by CompTIA back in the fourth quarter of last year, canvassing approximately 650 IT professionals and 271 attorneys. Almost 90 percent of the attorneys indicated that they believe law firms will engage in e-discovery processes more frequently. Common triggers include:

  • Employee misconduct investigations
  • Security breaches (external)
  • Lawsuits
  • Intentional internal security breaches
  • Unintentional internal security breaches

From an opportunity standpoint, technology solution providers should be interested to know that only about half of organizations actually have a formal e-discovery process or solution today. Another quarter of them are handling things informally, and the rest don’t have a policy.

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