Web E-Discovery

Hanzo Web E-Discovery solutions enable litigators and technologists to treat website content as any other ESI.

Key benefits of Hanzo are:

archived content is in native form and verifiably authentic, i.e. admissible
our web archives are ISO-standard web archives, i.e. long-term viable and vendor neutral
we are a pure-play web archiving company, i.e. we are not tied to any content management system (CMS), web technology or storage solutionÂ and we will work with pure-play e-discovery vendors.

Hanzo web archiving solutions for litigation and compliance enables:

an archive manager to implement an archiving policy for all web content across the business. This means the whole of a corporations web presence can be captured repeatedly and stored in a time structured archive and retained according to their records management policies.
analysts and legal teams to access, browse, filter and search the archived content prior to legal processing.
analysts and legal teams to export archive content, together with reports on provenance and authenticity, for legal processing and review.

Hanzo web archiving solutions provides:

technology independence (c.f. ECMS vendors)
standards compliance (c.f. ECMS vendors)
technology that is optimised for high-quality archives (c.f. high volume for the open source tools)
professionally supported technology that is easily adapted and changed to deal with new issues and the emergence of new web technologies (c.f. open source)
form of production that is authentic and identical to the original
admissibility assured by design

In conjunction with our software, Hanzo offers comprehensive quality assurance, crawl engineering and technical support services as part of the software as a service offering.

These features and services are critical to legal requirements, addressing searchability, admissibility, form of production, provenance and authenticity.

A comprehensive description of our enterprise web archiving solution can be found in our white paper, E-Discovery: why archiving your web presence is a business necessity.

Web Content at Risk

From an e-discovery and compliance perspective, companies should anticipate litigation by ensuring that your legal hold and your data collection practices are state of the art. Recent cases in the US point to the increasing costs of mistakes to companies during the e-discovery process.

It is now essential for businesses to incorporate the collection and preservation of websites in their native form, as part of their Records and Information Management procedures. See our white paper: E-discovery: Why Archiving Your Web Presence is a Business Necessity.

The process of e-discovery is a complicated, multifaceted, dynamic concept and which is increasingly seeing the use of websites as evidence in courts. So far, few legal cases have warranted the need to present websites in their native form. But recent changes in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.K. Financial Services Authority regulations now explicitly require historical and current website content to be retained along with other ESI for litigation and compliance.

However, unlike paper documents and flat files, collection, storage and preservation of websites and their content is complex and often expensive. Hanzo Enterprise however offers a cost effective solution:

significantly reduce e-discovery response times
archives all Web content in a single archive
enables direct search on the totality of your archived Web material
filtering on date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on

Businesses can also capture the whole of their web presence in a time structured archive and retain the archive according to their records management policies. It includes functionality for analysts and paralegals to access, filter and search the archived content prior to legal processing. Additionally, the archive content can be exported, together with reports on provenance and authenticity, for legal processing and review. Archiving this complex web content for compliance and litigation support also requires specialised quality assurance, crawl engineering and technical support services that Hanzo offers in conjunction with our enterprise archiving software.

Litigation Support & Compliance

Regulatory responsibilities and legal liabilities are being extended to digital content as the total corporate web presence grows. This trend is causing potential delays in e-discovery and the delays are cost intensive.

Moreover, mismanagement of archives can exacerbate costs: for example, how can a business prove the existence of information on the website or intranet at any time on a particular date? Can the CIO or IT Director prove they are able to respond to regulatory enforced e-discovery from old database back-ups within their required response time? Even if it is possible, the time and costs associated with re-implementing old CMSs and databases are enormous.

Hanzo Enterprise offers a cost effective solution. Hanzo Enterprise can significantly reduce e-discovery response times by archiving all your Web content in a single archive and enabling direct search on the totality of your archived Web material. This is enhanced by filtering on date, keywords, metadata, publications space and so on.

Risks associated with Enterprise Web Content

Hanzoâ€™s offer centres on an enterprise class web archiving system that enables an archive manager to implement an archiving policy for web content. This means the business can capture the whole of their web presence in a time structured archive and retain the archive according to their records management policies. It includes functionality for analysts and paralegals to access, filter and search the archived content prior to legal processing.

Additionally, the archive content can be exported, together with reports on provenance and authenticity, for legal processing and review. Archiving this complex web content for compliance and litigation support requires comprehensive quality assurance, crawl engineering and technical support services that Hanzo offers in conjunction with our enterprise archiving software.

These are critical to legal requirements, especially admissibility issues such as form of production, provenance and authenticity.

Hanzo Archives, Web archiving for compliance and e-discovery

Web E-Discovery

Web Content at Risk

Litigation Support & Compliance

Risks associated with Enterprise Web Content