e-Discovery Data Collections that are sophisticated and fast

Collection comprises most of the heavy lifting in the eDiscovery process.  With the tight timelines imposed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), the collection of relevant information needs to be fast, defensible, transparent and cost effective.  The challenge in collection is that most over collect when using older brute force collections methodologies.  However with KazCollection, costly brute force collections are thing of the past.  Kazeon has streamlined collections with highly sophisticated identification algorithms with our KazCollection technology.

Kazeon’s KazCollection

Single-Step Collection

Single-Step Targeted Collection is straightforward and available for legal users to perform without requiring IT resources. This saves time and is easy to use with a simple, step-by-step wizard. Filtering options for single-step collection include custodians, keywords, phrases, date ranges, document types, and email headers. For quick exclusion of system and/or other file types, a Windows profile will automatically instruct the processing engine to exclude irrelevant system files and application directories.

Remote Office and Laptop/Desktop Collection

Collecting data from remote offices and laptops/desktops can be done either through a local, self-managed VMware-based agent or without an agent using federation. This allows the end user the ability to determine the best time and most cost-effective collection process for their environment—including collection from USB and local drives. Indexed collection can be performed to enable search and what-if analysis. Collection without an index can be performed for quick, efficient collection from ESI sources including recycle bins. Encrypted laptops and other ESI sources can be identified and collected. The product has been proven in popular encryption environments such as Microsoft’s Encrypted File System (EFS), EMC/RSA, McAfee

Safeboot, NetApp Decru etc.

Encrypted laptops and other ESI sources can be identified and collected. The product has been proven in popular encryption environments such as Microsoft’s Encrypted File System (EFS), EMC/RSA, McAfee Safeboot, NetApp Decru etc.

Culling with Content Analytics

Capabilities that allow users to quickly eliminate a large amount of irrelevant documents are dynamic concept clusters, keyword and topic reports, and search-query analysis. Dynamic concept clusters present key concepts closely associated with the search that is being run. Unlike previous generations of concept search, Kazeon’s concepts are dynamic and relevant to the actual search query being executed for an accurate and complete eDiscovery process. Keyword and topic reports pro­vide a summary of keyword frequency and topics from across case documents and emails. Query Analysis helps separate ir­relevant terms from relevant terms. This is especially useful for wildcard or fuzzy searches that can introduce false positives.

Culling with Search Results Visualization

Search Results Visualization provides graphical analysis with interactive drilldown and chart rotation. This sophisticated graphical analysis view displays the composition and distribu­tion of documents and emails returned from a search query or associated with an entire case. Reviewers narrow the collection by any of the dynamically-populated filters to see the impact on the overall distribution. Direct drilldown from summary charts provides faceted navigation, while click and hold chart rotation allows users to view all segments of a pie chart.

Interactive Culling Using Search Filters

Reviewers can quickly narrow their search results by metadata fields, source repositories, email analytics (e.g. top sender and recipient domains), email directional analysis, review tags, and email header information using dynamically-populated Search Results and Review Tag filters. These filters significantly reduce the amount of time required to cull the case dataset down to just relevant documents.

Auditing and Data Verification

KazForensics™ Auditing and Data Verification capabilities provide a defensible and auditable process that ensures no spoliation of evidence by preserving all metadata. The entire eDiscovery process within the Kazeon environment is audited and reported on to ensure user behavior is accurately tracked and accounted for in a full chain-of-custody approach. Any collection or copy performed using Kazeon is verified by matching the unique thumbprint of the collected copy to the target to verify that they are identical.

Flexible

Kazeon’s Collection provides the option to either create a search index or not (indexless). Creating an index during processing provides users with the ability to search indexed documents at a later time. Not creating a search index saves space and time initially, while still giving users the option to create an index later.

Scalable and High-Performance Architecture

Built on the award-winning Kazeon eDiscovery suite, the Collection and Culling product offers the same industry-leading performance and scalability.

Kazeon’s eDiscovery Solution is the industry’s most comprehensive and affordable end-to-end eDiscovery Solution. From identification of ESI sources through auto-culling and interactive culling to export for production, Kazeon’s agentless platform allows you to whittle your vast dataset down to a manageable size in record time. All while preserving the integrity of the process and the information collected for a fully defensible and legally sound process.