CloudPreserve for Code42 and Legal Hold Pro Integration From Zapproved

Zapproved LLC and Code42 Software, Inc. announced CloudPreserve for Code42 and Legal Hold Pro, an integration between their products that strengthens and streamlines the data preservation workflow fo corporate legal and IT departments.

Data preservation and collections for enterprise businesses have historically been a high-cost, manual process for both legal and IT departments. The integration combines Legal Hold Pro software, which allows in-house corporate legal teams to reduce costs and risk by automating legal holds and data preservation requests, with Code42’s endpoint data protection software, which backups employee data to a secure on-premises or cloud location. The partnership represents a paradigm shift for enterprise businesses at a time when more organizations are seeking to reduce their e-discovery expenses and streamline legal operations.

Since Code42 backs up the same data that needs to be preserved for litigation and e-discovery purposes, the integration of these products provides businesses the ability to apply ‘in-place’ preservation holds on custodian computer data directly from Legal Hold Pro with a single click. Corporate legal teams are thus empowered to preserve and collect computer data in real-time, conducting forensically-sound computer collections, now without IT support.

This integration utilizes security standards (SOC 2 Type 2 certification) and has been customized for enterprise use, creating a secure tool able to handle all e-discovery preservations and collections.

“The partnership between Code42 and Zpproved represents what the next-generation of collections looks like. By leveraging the power of cloud backups for e-discovery, legal departments can take the onerous task of retrieving data off of individual devices and do it in a matter of minutes. It’s defensible, efficient, and minimizes business disruptions by taking employees offline,” said Monica Enand, founder and CEO, Zapproved.

CloudPreserve for Code42 and Legal Hold Pro allows corporate legal departments to select computers protected by Code42 as an additional preservation source within the Legal Hold Pro interface. The identified files on those computers can be collected every minute without any manual collection processes and without disrupting the custodian. Legal teams will also have faster access to files for litigation and compliance purposes, point-in-time historical visibility to the documents, and protection from device tampering and ransomware-related file loss. Unlimited cloud storage ensures that the protected data is continually maintained and accessible.

“Our primary focus is always to protect our customer?s information in order to ensure their business success, which includes how information is preserved for legal use. This integration delivers on both fronts,” said Joe Payne, president and CEO, Code42. “We’re excited to provide the most comprehensive endpoint data collection solution that fully supports Zapproved’s legal hold capabilities and accelerate the advancements in intelligent e-discovery.”