What is eDiscovery?

Discovery is the process of obtaining evidence by the parties involved in a lawsuit (civil or criminal) in the pre-trial stage. This evidence can be documents, photos, videos, audios, phone calls, bank transactions, among others.

With the ever-increasing rise of computer technology, networks, and the Internet, most evidence is stored on computers, servers, databases, mobile devices, and cloud computing, so the process of obtaining evidence that consists of electronically stored information (ESI) is called eDiscovery and one of its branches is digital forensics that is aimed at identifying, acquiring, processing, analyzing, and reporting evidence.