Insight eDiscovery term definitions
Table: Insight eDiscovery definitions lists some specific terms that are used in Insight eDiscovery and explains their meaning in this context.
Table: Insight eDiscovery definitions
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Custodian | In the context of Insight eDiscovery, a custodian is anyone for whom your organization holds or has held an archive account. When an eDiscovery Administrator creates a case, they assign the custodians that the associated eDiscovery is to include. |
| eDiscovery | eDiscovery is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information in response to a request for production in a law suit or investigation. |
| Investigation | In the context of Insight eDiscovery, this term means to examine and discover the factors of a potentially legal inquiry. |
| Label | Apply a label to an email typically to mark it as exempt from the review process. The default labels are: Spam , Privileged , and Personal . You can create custom labels to suit your company's requirements. |
| Legal Hold | A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve relevant information for legal reasons. |
| Case | In law, a case is a subject that is in controversy or in dispute. In Insight eDiscovery an eDiscovery Administrator creates a case to act as a container in which to associate all the related emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files for such a subject. |
| Tag | In Insight eDiscovery a tag is a marker that can be applied to emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files to help organize the process of investigation or review. |
| - In the eDiscovery tab you can tag an email with a review status tag to indicate its status in the eDiscovery review process. | |
| - You can apply your own custom tags to emails, collaboration messages, and files as you want, for example to retrieve identically tagged items easily at a later time. These tags are visible only to the user that applies them. | |
| - You can tag items with a managed tag, if you have any of these available to you. Managed tags are created in the Arctera Insight Management Console, under the My Config > Managed Tags node. |
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