Guidance Software, (NASDAQ:GUID), the World Leader in Digital Investigations™, announced today an integration with Dropbox for Business that enables Dropbox customers to seamlessly address their e-discovery requirements. Dropbox for Business provides teams with the power, security, and performance of Dropbox, along with robust admin capabilities that give IT visibility and control over company data. Guidance Software now becomes one of several leading vendors building on the new Dropbox for Business API in order to offer increased enterprise-grade functionality within Dropbox for Business through its integration with EnCase® eDiscovery.

“As organizations become heavily reliant on storing information in enterprise file sharing and synch services such as Dropbox for Business, the need to collect information relevant to IT security and litigation teams quickly and comprehensively can be critical to reaching a favorable resolution,” said Anthony Di Bello, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Guidance Software. “With the EnCase eDiscovery integration, Dropbox has taken a critical step toward empowering its enterprise customers by enabling a new level of control over sensitive information stored in the cloud.”

The Dropbox for Business API enables developers to build a wide range of integrations that further support critical business needs for the companies that run on Dropbox for Business. These integrations extend the power of the Dropbox Platform by addressing new areas including e-discovery, security information & event management (SIEM), data loss prevention (DLP), and digital rights management (DRM).

Together with Dropbox for Business, EnCase eDiscovery enables defensible search and the ability to collect and preserve electronically stored information (ESI) in Dropbox for Business accounts. EnCase eDiscovery makes it possible to respond to litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations while keeping relevant ESI in check.

Ranked as a leader in e-discovery software by Gartner four years in a row, EnCase eDiscovery is a comprehensive and scalable solution for effectively managing electronically stored documents in litigation, arbitration, and internal or regulatory investigations, significantly reducing e-discovery risk and costs. EnCase eDiscovery provides control over the entire e-discovery workflow, from legal hold to identification, collection, preservation, processing, first-pass review, best-in-class early case assessment (ECA), review, and production capabilities.

Legal and risk management teams gain the following from the EnCase eDiscovery integration with Dropbox for Business:

  • Instant Visibility of content housed in Dropbox for Business. EnCase eDiscovery can quickly scan Dropbox for Business and identify potentially relevant ESI based on specific criteria. Legal and IT support teams can access Dropbox for Business data in a forensically sound manner as the integration keeps metadata and content intact, then makes it available to dispersed collaboration groups as needed.
  • Centralized Access to data that may be required for e-discovery, increasing speed while preventing inadvertent sharing of sensitive data.
  • Rapid Response to Legal Matters becomes a critical advantage in responding to regulatory requests. By only collecting relevant ESI, workloads are reduced, along with risks and costs associated with manual procedures, such as copying files and burning DVDs.
  • Lifecycle Control with a defensible process for retention and deletion (dispensation) of all data relevant in legal matters, whether stored on premise or on DropBox for Business.

“Dropbox for Business is all about simplifying the way people and companies work, and a big part of that is enabling integrations with the services our customers already use to meet their various business needs,” said George O’Brien, product manager for Dropbox for Business. “We are excited to work with Guidance Software to provide our customers with a seamless experience between EnCase eDiscovery and Dropbox for Business to address their e-discovery requirements.”

To learn more about Dropbox for Business, please visit https://www.dropbox.com/business.

About Dropbox

Dropbox’s mission is to build a home for everyone’s most important information and bring it to life. We make it easy for millions of people at home and at work to access, share, and collaborate on their files so they can be more productive. For more information, please visit https://www.dropbox.com/press.

About Guidance Software, Inc.

Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in endpoint investigation solutions for security incident response, e-discovery and forensic analysis. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform, deployed on an estimated 22 million endpoints, is used by more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500, and numerous government agencies to conduct digital investigations of servers, laptops, desktops and mobile devices. Built on the EnCase Enterprise platform are market-leading IT security, IT help desk, and electronic discovery solutions, EnCase® Cybersecurity, EnCase® Analytics, EnCase® Remote Recovery + and EnCase® eDiscovery. For more information about Guidance Software, please visit www.guidancesoftware.com.

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