Leading corporate information security firm, Espion has won a five year tender to deliver a modern and robust eDiscovery management system for the Central Bank of Ireland.
Since 2010 - the Central Bank of Ireland has been responsible for both central banking and financial regulation and in this capacity pursues enforcement actions across a number of topics. eDiscovery will support these objectives.
Espion is delivering the solution using Symantec's Clearwell eDiscovery Platform which is the leading electronic discovery software that enables enterprises, governments and law firms to manage legal, regulatory and investigative matters using a single application.
Espion technical director, Colm Murphy, says: "As ever more data and information is stored in digital format eDiscovery will play an ever increasing role in litigations and regulatory investigations. For the past ten years, Espion has been at the forefront of eDiscovery advances and our technology and expertise will enable the Central Bank of Ireland to efficiently review large volumes of documents quickly and effectively."
Espion boasts one of the largest Forensics & eDiscovery practices in Europe and has vast experience in the Financial Services sector and recently executed one of the biggest litigation-based eDiscovery projects ever carried out for Bank Austria, Vienna, spanning more than 20 million electronic documents. This large scale multi-jurisdictional litigation, involved working with various divisions within the bank including: IT, Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit and Records Management.
In addition to working with top in-house counsel, law firms, corporations and government agencies in Ireland, Espion has built a highly qualified and experienced international team with multi-jurisdictional expertise capable of navigating the obstacles associated with collecting and moving data from European countries (i.e. European Data Protection Legislation and European Banking Secrecy laws). Most recently Espion opened new offices in Brussels, to support the growing demand for its services from international law firms with eDiscovery &ay & Digital Forensics needs in Europe.