3BView Solution Finder - Legal Firms and Departments
How can you ensure your business is protected from leaking confidential information?
Potentially, this could lose you a case, a client, or your reputation – let alone any financial or regulatory penalties.
E-discovery is also becoming an increasingly important area for lawyers and corporations. In particular, the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) introduced in the USA in December 2006 have meant that companies are being asked to produce huge quantities of documents in legal cases.
Not meeting the required e-discovery standards can be costly. Morgan Stanley lost a $1.45 billion case in 2005, principally because it could not produce the right electronic documents in time.
With so many electronic documents being examined in litigation, hidden “metadata” has become an increasing worry – there are costly examples of data leaks where companies such as Merck have exposed themselves to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of costs in litigation, due to simple mistakes with metadata. Metadata can include tracked changes in Microsoft Word and other documents, and information on who worked on a document when. If it accidentally reveals significant information, this metadata can have a huge cost to a business and potentially can be the deciding factor in winning or losing a case.
To prevent this kind of information loss, 3BView provides innovative solutions for the secure exchange of electronic communications and documents, and the management of metadata. In the Information Leak Prevention (ILP) market, 3BView has the most advanced technology and the easiest to use solutions.
Our products use advanced policy-based processing to monitor and control outbound electronic communications, for example to remove metadata accidentally left in a document before it is emailed, such as tracked changes or author names.
Find out more:
- Case studies
- 3BView’s white paper on Information Leak Prevention and metadata
- 3BView’s white paper on e-discovery and metadata
- Our products
- Read about some costly examples of data leaks suffered by Google, AT&T, Merck and others.
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3BView News
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