Blockchain Notarization for Legal Hold Data Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data preservation methods for legal hold and eDiscovery are prone to errors and lack assurance that data has not been modified or manipulated, especially by internal parties with access, leading to potential legal consequences.
Innovation Solution
A method and system using replication and blockchain notarization to create a secure cloud storage space with access control, where identified relevant data is replicated and notarized, ensuring data integrity and authenticity through blockchain verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual procedures are used for data identification, collection and preservation, then the process is simple to implement, but the risk of errors and court sanctions is high
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an eDiscovery software system as an intermediary between manual operations and data preservation. This software automates the identification, collection, and preservation processes while implementing blockchain notarization to ensure data integrity. The system acts as a mediator that eliminates human error while maintaining procedural simplicity through automated workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical procedures with an automated software-based system. The eDiscovery software automatically performs data identification, collection, and preservation tasks that were previously done manually, thereby eliminating human error while maintaining ease of implementation through automated processes.
2Productivity
If eDiscovery software is used to simplify procedures, then the data processing efficiency is improved, but the guarantee of data integrity and authenticity is weakened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical data verification methods with blockchain-based cryptographic verification. The system uses blockchain notarization to create immutable records of data integrity, providing automated cryptographic proof that eliminates the need for complex manual verification processes while ensuring absolute data authenticity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces blockchain technology as an intermediary verification layer between the eDiscovery software and the preserved data. This blockchain notarization mechanism provides independent, decentralized verification of data integrity, ensuring that the automated software processes maintain data authenticity without requiring additional manual oversight.
3Reliability
If data is stored in on-premises backup storage, then access control is simple to implement, but the risk of data destruction or manipulation by internal parties is high
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves data storage from a single on-premises location to a distributed cloud-based blockchain network. This dimensional shift from centralized to decentralized storage creates multiple independent copies of data across the blockchain network, making it impossible for any single internal party to manipulate or destroy the data without detection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces cloud-based blockchain storage as an intermediary between the organization's data and physical storage infrastructure. This blockchain layer acts as a trusted mediator that prevents direct access to raw data by internal parties, ensuring that even those with physical access to original systems cannot manipulate preserved evidence.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for preserving data using a replication and blockchain notarization. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a hardware processor, receiving, from a user, a request for a legal hold of data and criteria for controlling access to the data, creating a legal hold object and establishing an access control criteria, creating, in the cloud storage, a cloud storage space that corresponds to the created legal hold object, and defining the access control for reading from the created cloud storage space, searching, in a backup data storage of a client data system, to identify all relevant data corresponding to the created legal hold object, and storing the identified relevant data and the search queries used for the identification of the relevant data, replicating the identified relevant data in the created cloud storage space, and notarizing the replicated relevant data using a blockchain notarization service.