Legal Services Data Management
Legal Services Data Management
Tier Data Without Disruption and Expand Ransomware Protection
Leveraging Legal Data for New Value
Most law firms struggle to manage uncontrolled growth of client-related data which attorneys are resistant to delete in the event a case will be reopened. Large law firms see an average 20% annual growth in storage for file related data, exploding top-tier storage costs. Law firms have also been targeted by ransomware actors and other cybercriminals given the massive quantities of high value, confidential data they retain.
These are costly problems to manage when firms need to monetize data and use AI. Law firms want to take advantage of AI for contract analysis, legal research, litigation strategy and more, requiring rapid search and movement of case files and other documents into AI tools. Legal teams must also comply with e-discovery requests and the need to reopen cases. This requires easier ways to search, review, and produce digital evidence from large volumes of data.
We did extensive testing of Komprise, from accessing the files directly on the file shares to accessing them through the use of various applications and it was determined that there was no difference to the end-user experience, even with large litigation files.
Alexander Diaz, Katten Law
Use Case
Manage Ongoing Security and Compliance Needs
Unstructured data security and compliance are complex to manage in law, given the need to comply with client confidentiality, regulations, e-discovery and audits, prevent ransomware attacks and address AI data governance. Full visibility, secure archiving and access tracking of unstructured data assets is imperative.
Key Benefits for Law Firms
Cut Storage Costs with Automated Policies
Komprise Intelligent Data Management delivers the capability to establish internal policies for different use cases, such as to tier cold data that hasn’t been touched in more than a year to second storage or by situation, such as when a case has been closed.
Transparent Tiering for Zero User Disruption
Komprise Transparent Move Technology (TMT) assures that applications and users experience no disruption from data movement. If data needs to be accessed again after it has been tiered to lower cost storage such as object storage in the cloud, the data appears to be in the same location as before. Users simply click on a Komprise Dynamic Link which seamlessly redirects to the new location.
Ransomware Protection in the Cloud
By tiering cold data to immutable cloud object storage, Komprise delivers a proactive security posture to thwart ransomware actors by preventing bad actors from accessing or making any changes to data and reducing the attack surface.
Intelligent AI Ingestion
Komprise Smart Data Workflows allows IT to create automated, policy-driven processes to find, enrich metadata for better classification and move data to AI platforms. The Komprise Global File Index stores all metadata across storage and allows for custom queries along with PII scanning and regex/keyword search to curate the precise files (such as from a particular case, topic or client) for AI ingestion. This avoids excess spending on AI processing and limits the risk of inaccurate, low quality results.
Learn how Komprise can help law firms get to the cloud faster, save more and take control of unstructured data management.
