Table of Contents

What Is Electronic Information, and Why Should You Care? Translating Geek: Information Technology versus Everyone Else. Where Is Electronically Stored Information? It’s Everywhere! Who’s in Charge Here? Allies, Owners, and Stakeholders. The Hunt: Recovery and Acquisition. Keeping Your Treasures: Preservation and Management. Sharing Is Good: Dissemination and Reporting. Appendix I: Links and References for More Information. Appendix II: Forms and Guides. Appendix III: Links to Technical Software Solutions. Index.

About the Author

David Matthews has worked in the information technology (IT) field since 1992. He began working for the City of Seattle as the technology manager for the Legislative Department (City Council) in 1998. In early 2005, he was selected to be the first Deputy CISO for the city. In his work for the city, he developed and created an incident response plan that is compliant with the National Incident Management System (NIMS)/Incident Command System (ICS); updated and extensively rewrote the city’s information security policy; and created and taught training courses on information security and forensics. He created an IT primer for the city’s law department as part of his collaboration with them on e-discovery issues.

In 2012, he was recruited by Expedia, Inc. to develop and lead their global cyber incident response team. He created and exercised a plan that integrated with their network response and disaster recovery plans and led a team located both in the United States and India. He retired in 2014 and is now doing consultant work mostly with local governments and critical infrastructure to enhance their cyber response and resiliency capabilities.

Reviews

"Matthews has approached e-discovery from a fresh, new perspective—one that is understandable to the layperson as well as the technologist. ... A must-read for anyone in the information technology and legal professions, the book provides invaluable information to be proactive or reactive in responding to requests of electronically stored information. ... This book goes a long way in removing the intimidation factor between IT, the corporate legal department, and outside counsel. This book should be required reading for anyone in a computer science, information technology, or law-related program, and is now part of the Digital Forensics and the Law course I instruct. If you want to get up to speed on e-discovery and actually understand what you read, you’ll buy this book."
—Steve Hailey, President & CEO, CyberSecurity Institute; Digital Forensic Examiner; and Educator