Ad hoc, unsupervised discovery efforts by management, IT departments and counsel could sink a case before it even gets started, a fact usually discovered much later, after expending significant time and money.
- Become familiar with the organization's record retention and destruction policies.
- Determine if policies were actively enforced and audited to ensure compliance
- Communicate with IT personnel.
- Gain a sound understanding of pertinent information systems.
- Learn how information is created, maintained and destroyed
- Identify and account for accessible and inaccessible electronically stored information
- Confer with technicians to devise cost effective and valid methods of data collection.