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Introducing iReview Analytics™ Early Case Assessment Tool for Electronic Discovery

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The sheer volume of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in companies and government organizations challenges any organization to understand the costs of e-discovery and prepare for each step of litigation. Even with data already in litigation hold and through a first pass filter there can be a tremendous volume to sift through, leaving many uncertainties.

The question then becomes this: How do you extract the information you need in order to understand the potential costs of a full review without undertaking a full review — and still be prepared for a Rule 26 meet and confer?

iReview Analytics™ from Global EDD Group is an early case assessment (ECA) tool that gives you the insight you need to be prepared. iReview Analytics utilizes CAAT, a powerful example of a new class of technologies known as “Text Analytics”, to transform large volumes of unstructured data, such as documents, emails, and publications, into relevant, actionable information. Text Analytics automate most of the human activity traditionally associated with ECA to understand, organize, prioritize and retrieve information from large sources of unstructured data.

iReview Analytics was developed in partnership with Content Analyst Analytical Technology (CAAT), a leading developer of advanced analytics for searching and analyzing unstructured text. iReview Analytics includes the CAAT engine – a unique, patented software system that provides advanced Conceptual Search functions based on Latent Semantic Indexing. This search technology enables iReview Analytics to acquire all its search intelligence from the actual documents being indexed. Unlike other solutions, iReview Analytics does not require external dictionaries or thesauri. It works across foreign languages, even searching – and finding – relevant documents in different languages –without prior translation.

iReview Analytics returns to you an analysis of your data that identifies key concepts, categorizes those concepts and then provides you the ability to sample the documents based on the most relevant categories. This early case assessment gives you the information you need to understand costs and prepare for Rule 26 meet and confer at a fraction of the cost of a full review.

iReview Analytics™ Capabilities:

Concept Search – Using advanced mathematic formulas to allow users to find similar, related, and relevant documents based purely on the concepts those documents are discussing – without using keywords, and without retrieving “matching, yet irrelevant” content.

Categorization – Allows users to define categories by means of examples. Based on the exemplars, iReview Analytics and CAAT technology automatically categorizes incoming documents.

Instant Context (Contextual Explanation) – Helps users understand unfamiliar terminology. The user clicks on an unfamiliar term and iReview Analytics with CAAT highlights similar terms found in related text.

Language Analytics – Within any single language, iReview Analytics with CAAT can be applied to any topic, vocabulary or language that can be represented in the Unicode encoding system. In a cross-lingual mode, users can submit queries in English while searching documents in other languages.

Summarization – Automatically identifies sentences in a document that best represent key concepts, and uses those sentences to give users a quick summary of the entire document.

Dynamic Clustering – Allows a user to point iReview Analytics with CAAT to a set of documents and then allow iReview Analytics with CAAT to dynamically group conceptually-similar documents together in a tree-type hierarchy and finally, to apply a descriptive title to each cluster of documents.

Near Duplicate Document Detection – Uses iReview Analytics with CAAT Dynamic Clustering to identify and group documents that are duplicates and/or near-duplicate documents, as well as identifying the extent of duplication.

Learn more about iReview Analytics and Global EDD Group by clicking to http://www.globaleddgroup.com/

iReview Analytics™ from Global EDD Group

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Apple reportedly setting up system for remote iPhone diagnostics

August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

AppleCare technicians may soon be able to glean troubleshooting information from your iPhone, saving you a trip to the Apple Store. The company is reportedly set to deploy a Web-based tool to collect various bits of diagnostic information from an iOS device in order to transmit it directly to Apple’s servers for analysis.

According to a source speaking to HardMac, Apple has internally announced that it has created a Web-based version of diagnostic tools that AppleCare technicians are already using. The tool allows a technician to send an e-mail (or presumably an SMS) with a specially crafted URL. When a user clicks the URL, it connects to Apple’s servers and collects various bits of data about the device’s state, the health of the battery, and the version of iOS running.

via Apple reportedly setting up system for remote iPhone diagnostics.

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The Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act: Another Tool to Fight Transnational Crime « USDOJ: Justice Blog

August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Around the globe today, criminals are seeking to exploit the lack of transparency associated with U.S. companies to harm our national and economic security. Major drug trafficking cartels, arms traffickers and other criminal organizations have employed shell corporations to further their illegal activities and launder their ill-gotten proceeds.

The Department of Justice joins our partners at the Departments of Treasury and Homeland Security in welcoming the introduction of an important bill  (PDF) this week in Congress to “combat U.S. corporations with hidden owners” that would require disclosure of beneficial ownership information in the company formation process.

via The Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act: Another Tool to Fight Transnational Crime « USDOJ: Justice Blog.

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E-Discovery Process, Policy More Important Than Tools

August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Tools Not a Panacea

However, it’s important to remember that tools can’t do everything. Indeed, tools are most typically used to implement processes and policies that are already in place — and a tool can’t create a process or policy if there isn’t one there. Moreover, different tools are appropriate at different parts of the process.

This is especially important because, as awareness of e-Discovery and its use in trials grows, the number of sanctions against companies for failing to perform e-Discovery correctly is increasing, not decreasing.

Moreover, an LDM Global study of errors in e-Discovery indicate that the most significant errors tend to be errors of process and people, not process:

Failure to Effectively Communicate across Teams: 50% of the respondents identified this error as one that frequently occurs

An Inadequate Data Retention Policy: 47% of the respondents identified this error as one that frequently occurs

Not Collecting all Pertinent Data: 41% of the respondents identified this error as one that frequently occurs

Failure to Perform Critical Quality Control (i.e., sampling): 40% of the respondents identified this error as one that frequently occurs

Badly Thought Out, or Badly Implemented, Policy: 40% of the respondents identified this error as one that frequently occurs

In contrast, the study notes, only 14% of respondents identified Spoliation of evidence, or the inability to preserve relevant emails — one of the easier things to automate — as an error that frequently occurs.

The Most Important E-Discovery Process

There are a number of descriptions of the e-Discovery process lifecycle, but the most important part is this: Some steps are required to be followed before litigation, while others are followed afterwards. In other words, you can’t wait until you get the subpoena to begin to implement an e-Discovery policy; it needs to be started right now.

via E-Discovery Process, Policy More Important Than Tools.

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Adobe ‘Edge’ Tool Could Replace Flash With HTML5 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Adobe Systems today released a preview version of an HTML5 development tool called Adobe Edge. The tool will allow Web developers to build those “little beautifully designed jewels on the Web featuring animations,” Devin Fernandez, Adobe Group product manager, told PCMag last week.

The work on Edge, which is available for developers to download from the company’s Adobe Labs site, is something of an acknowledgement by the premier design software house that the Web is moving away from Flash. It is instead focusing on open-standard HTML5 and its many sub-standards, which are capable of creating the same effects in a non-proprietary manner via compliant Web browsers, without a plug-in.

Adobe has made Edge available to developers far earlier than it usually does, even before the beta stage, because of the evolving nature of HTML5 and its support in current browsers. This will allow the company to quickly address feedback from testers. Fernandez told us that Edge was “not even close to feature complete.” Where possible, monthly updates will be issued. He also said that the final release would come some time in 2012.

Edge has a definite focus on the mobile Web—the fastest growing segment of Internet use—as shown in the tool’s inclusion of the WebKit browser engine, which powers today’s dominant mobile platforms: Apple iOS, Android, WebOS, and Blackberry. Despite this focus, the tool will also be able to create content for traditional desktop browsers that support HTML5, such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 9, and Safari.

via Adobe ‘Edge’ Tool Could Replace Flash With HTML5 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

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Next Network Monitoring Tool: Your Smartphone – mobility Blog

July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Monitoring servers and network health are features that have been on smartphones for a while, but it often comes in the form of remote desktop access or mobile Web access, and support for multiple systems has been sketchy. That is changing though. Smartphones are becoming first-class citizens among devices that keep IT staff updated on what is going on with enterprise IT systems.

Derdack is readying a new app for Windows Phone 7 that will connect directly to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager; Windows Server 2008 Server Manager; HP Operations Center; and IBM Tivoli Monitoring. It should be available from the Windows Marketplace in late July.

The Mobile Alert App takes advantage of Windows Phone 7 features like live tiles and push notifications. You can also elect to get some alerts old school via SMS or voice.

The app doesn’t just alert you to an issue, but gives you full details on the incident so you can determine whether or not you need to get up from dinner and deal with it immediately or wait until you show up for work the next morning. Derdack also claims the app integrates with existing help desk systems so incidents should be able to be assigned right from the phone.

Making effective use of the Metro UI in Windows Phone 7, you can quickly see new alerts and which are resolved and unresolved. Once in an alert, you can view detailed information about it.

via Next Network Monitoring Tool: Your Smartphone – mobility Blog.

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Free Dropbox Forensics Tool | ReadWriteWeb

June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Dropbox Reader is a set of Python scripts for forensic investigators. The scripts provide investigators with information about a particular Dropbox user’s account and activities, such as the registration e-mail, Dropbox identifier and most recently changed files.

Dropbox Reader was created by Cybermarshal, the computer forensics wing of ATC-NY.

Here’s a list and description of the tools from the product website:

read_config script outputs the contents of the Dropbox config.db file in human-readable form. This includes the user’s registered e-mail address and Dropbox identifier, software version information, and a list of the most-recently-changed files.

read_filecache_config script outputs configuration information from the Dropbox filecache.db file. This includes information about shared directories that are attached to the user’s Dropbox account.

read_filejournal script outputs information about Dropbox synchronized files stored in the filecache.db file. This includes local and server-side metadata and a list of block hashes for each Dropbox-synchronized file.

read_sigstore script outputs information from the Dropbox sigstore.db file, which is an additional source of block hashes.

hash_blocks script produces a block hash list for any file. This block hash list can be compared to the block hashes from read_filejournal or read_sigstore.

dropbox_contains_file script hashes one or more files (as per hash_blocks) and compares the resulting block hash list to the files listed in filecache.db (as per read_filejournal) and reports whether the files are partially or exactly the same as any Dropbox-synchronized files.

via Free Dropbox Forensics Tool.

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Google adds download defense to Chrome, patches 15 bugs – Computerworld

June 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Google on Tuesday updated Chrome to version 12, adding a new tool that warns users when they’ve downloaded files from dangerous Web sites.

The company also patched 15 bugs in the browser and paid out nearly $10,000 in bounties to outside researchers who reported vulnerabilities to its security team.

Chrome displays this warning if a downloaded file is served from a known malware distribution site.

New to Chrome 12 is a feature that flags dodgy files pulled from the Web. Chrome now shows an alert when users download some file types from sites that are on the Safe Browsing API (application programming interface) blacklist, which Google maintains.

The messages reads: “This file is malicious. Are you sure you want to continue?”

via Google adds download defense to Chrome, patches 15 bugs – Computerworld.

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United Nations report: Internet access is a human right – latimes.com

June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Internet access is a human right, according to a United Nations report released on Friday.

“Given that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress, ensuring universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all states,” said the report from Frank La Rue, a special rapporteur to the United Nations, who wrote the document “on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.”

La Rue said in his report that access to the Internet is particularly important during times of political unrest, as demonstrated by the recent “Arab Spring” uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, among other countries.

From the report:

The Special Rapporteur believes that the Internet is one of the most powerful instruments of the 21st century for increasing transparency in the conduct of the powerful, access to information, and for facilitating active citizen participation in building democratic societies.

Indeed, the recent wave of demonstrations in countries across the Middle East and North African region has shown the key role that the Internet can play in mobilizing the population to call for justice, equality, accountability and better respect for human rights.

The report notes that while the Internet has been in existence since the 1960s, it is the way people now use the Internet, across the world and across age groups, with “incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life,” that makes the Internet an unprecedented force.

via United Nations report: Internet access is a human right – latimes.com.

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Free, Open Source E-Discovery Tool? FreeEED V1.0 Released

June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Mark Kerzner has created and published an open source  eDiscovery tool called FreeEed. It works on your computer, on a Hadoop cluster, or on Amazon EC2 cloud. FreeEed Version 1.o is available for download at https://github.com/markkerzner/FreeEed

via http://shmsoft.blogspot.com/2011/05/freeeed-v10-released.html

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