It is necessary to implement a litigation hold:

It is necessary to implement a litigation hold:

A legal hold is the process during which an organization is required to preserve and not delete information that is relevant to a pending or anticipated legal action. 

During the processing stage of an e-discovery project, the metadata and text of documents are extracted so that the documents are fully text searchable. 

A litigation hold is a directive to individuals within a company to preserve ESI and documents that are potentially relevant to a legal matter. 

The collection stage of the e-discovery process refers to:

A forensic image of a computer hard drive is a bit-for-bit copy or mirror image of the hard drive. 

The phrase “litigation readiness” suggests that an organization has taken no steps to prepare for a potential lawsuit. 

Records and information management policies should:

A “hash value” is a numerical value assigned to a native file based on the unique contents and properties of that file and it functions as the digital fingerprint of that file.