Standard IT Tools vs. DiscoveryBot

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Reasons to use DiscoveryBOT™ over other tools:

1. DiscoveryBOT™ is well accepted in the legal industry and has been used in e-discovery for close to a decade with NO successful challenges by Courts or Regulatory Agencies.
2. DiscoveryBOT™ has built-in chain-of-custody functionality so that every bit of every collected file is accounted for and can be certified for use as evidence in legal matters.
3. DiscoveryBOT™ has in-stream hashing which works to hash validate all files during the collection which is logged as a part of the robust auditing features.  Standard IT data copy tools do not hash the files at all and so there is no way to authenticate the collected data.
4. DiscoveryBOT™ can be set to collect by tracking custodians whereby all data for a particular custodian is included in that specific collected data set – this custodian tracking occurs throughout the process and is included in all the logs as well.
5. While standard IT data copy tools collect loose files, DiscoveryBOT™ collects data directly into a hashed and encrypted container preventing accidental changes to the timestamps of the files if someone is browsing the data.
6. DiscoveryBOT™ container format can be compressed using open source compression technology (for defensibility) and can be protected in two ways – by password or certificate based encryption.
7. Standard IT data copy tools can delete data from the source location after it has been copied if not configured correctly while DiscoveryBOT™ has no delete function at all.
8. The sheer number of command switches for standard IT data copy tools makes it easy for someone to overlook important switches such as copying all NTFS permissions - DiscoveryBOT™ collects all metadata and other information (such as permission and ADS information) be default.
9. DiscoveryBOT™ has been designed from the ground-up to be an evidence collection tool and as such has robust logging and audit trails, including full timestamp information, file hashes, other session logging and environmental variables logging which are all critical to defending the process and the mechanics of the collection.
10. Standard IT data copy tools have very limited support when something goes wrong but with DiscoveryBOT™, a user gets full support from the BIA Professional Services team.
11. Standard IT data copy tools require a skill level usually associated with someone who is tech savvy (such as an IT professional) whereas with DiscoveryBOT™, any user can work it – a few clicks and a collection is configured properly and can begin.
12. DiscoveryBOT™ has intelligent auto-recover features that will go back to the last known good collected file to pick-up collections whereas standard IT data copy tools will pick up from the specific  file that failed thus not adding certainty that all files were indeed collected.
13. DiscoveryBOT™ can be used in multi-collection mode where it can be used to collect from multiple custodians and sources simultaneously.
14. DiscoveryBOT™ has been used to collect data from over 40 countries and has special screens/workflow to allow for special privacy data collections in EU and Asia and can handle collecting any file type, legacy character sets and Unicode.
15. DiscoveryBOT™ is backed by BIA and it’s E-Discovery Experts for defensibility.  If parties are looking to challenge the use of DiscoveryBOT™ in legal matters, BIA experts will defend the process.
16. DiscoveryBOT™ is designed to work with several other BIA products and technologies in order to collect data from many other sources such as SharePoint, Wikis and other non-traditional user sources as well as to connect to BIA ESI cataloging, Legal Hold and Custodial Questionnaire applications  - so DiscoveryBOT™ can be used on its own to collect data for e-discovery purposes or can work in tandem with other BIA technologies to offer a more well rounded left-side EDRM solution while Standard IT data copy tools is simply an IT copy tool.