eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

According to Gary Bendel, President and COO of PLUSnxt, “PLUS Accelerator provides the ideal situation for organizations that have internal eDiscovery capabilities but may still need support with RelativityOne. The service helps bridge the gap between full support and the organization independently managing their own eDiscovery needs. The key is that we’ve done away with the typical barriers to entry that organizations often encounter, such as data minimums, long-term contracts, and costly subscriptions. The service is a perfect reflection of our company vision to focus on our client’s experience and needs.”

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According to the new report, following a year of unprecedented cyber-attacks, business interruption and supply chain disruption, and natural catastrophe activity, these three perils are foremost in the minds of survey respondents in 2022. Meanwhile, awareness of the risks of climate change is growing among companies, achieving its highest-ever position of sixth in the Allianz Risk Barometer. AGCS CEO Joachim Mueller notes in the new report that "'Business interrupted’ will likely remain the key underlying risk theme in 2022. For most companies, the biggest fear is not being able to produce their products or deliver their services. 2021 saw unprecedented levels of disruption, caused by various triggers. Crippling cyber-attacks, the supply chain impact from many climate change-related weather events, as well as pandemic-related manufacturing problems and transport bottlenecks, wreaked havoc. This year only promises a gradual easing of the situation, although further Covid-19-related problems cannot be ruled out. Building resilience against the many causes of business interruption is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage for companies.”

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The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) recently issued an analysis of the interoperability potential of cybersecurity risk management frameworks and methodologies to improve decision-making. The report is primarily designed to assess the existing risk management frameworks and methodologies in order to identify those with the most prominent interoperable features.

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In the winter of 2021, 43 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. 41.9% of respondents reported increasing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). This is the highest percentage of respondents reporting DSO as increasing since the introduction of operational metric questions into the business confidence survey in the winter of 2019.

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According to the media release, in a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ("Datenschutzbehörde" or "DSB") has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. This is the first decision on the 101 model complaints filed by noyb in the wake of the so-called "Schrems II" decision. In 2020, the Court of Justice (CJEU) decided that the use of US providers violates the GDPR, as US surveillance laws require US providers like Google or Facebook to provide personal details to US authorities. Similar decisions are expected in other EU member states, as regulators have cooperated on these cases in an EDPB "task force". It seems the Austrian DSB decision is the first to be issued.

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Since January 2016, 2,649 individual responses to twenty-five quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence surveys have been received from cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. These nonscientific quarterly surveys are designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the field of eDiscovery supporting cyber, data, and legal discovery tasks. 54 respondents shared their strongly optimistic opinions as part of the most recent survey.

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Since beginning to track the number of publicly highlighted merger, acquisition, and investment (M&A+I) events in the eDiscovery ecosystem, ComplexDiscovery has noted at least 508 M&A+I events between November 2001 and December 2021. In considering M&A+I events in 2021, the following findings, drivers, data points, and tracking charts may be useful for understanding the activity patterns of these business events between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021.

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Beginning in July 2020, increased interest in levels of M&A activity resulted in the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) publishing monthly figures for Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions. The latest monthly update from the PNO is for December 2021 (FY 2022) and noted 285 reported transactions. This is the highest number of monthly reported transactions in the month of December between FY 2010 and FY 2022. However, it is the lowest reported monthly total in the current fiscal year of 2022.

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According to the new report from Everlaw, cyber, data, and legal discovery professionals no longer need a Frankenstein-type solution where every step in the EDRM requires a different piece of software or separate solution. Instead, they are looking for ways to have fewer solutions that manage more aspects of legal work.

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When vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited, it risks a loss or breach of personal information, financial loss, and other irreversible harms. The duty to take reasonable steps to mitigate known software vulnerabilities implicates laws including, among others, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act. It is critical that companies and their vendors relying on Log4j act now, in order to reduce the likelihood of harm to consumers, and to avoid FTC legal action. The FTC intends to use its full legal authority to pursue companies that fail to take reasonable steps to protect consumer data from exposure as a result of Log4j, or similar known vulnerabilities in the future.

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