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Veritas Alta™ eDiscovery User Guide

Last Published: 2023-04-17

Product(s): Veritas Alta Archiving (1.0), Veritas Alta Surveillance (1.0), Veritas Alta eDiscovery (1.0), Veritas Alta Capture (1.0)

Alta eDiscovery term definitions

Table: Alta eDiscovery definitions lists some specific terms that are used in Alta eDiscovery and explains their meaning in this context.

Table: Alta eDiscovery definitions

Term	Description
Classification	If your company is enabled for the Veritas Alta Classification service, you can simplify data management decisions by categorizing data based on classification policies. The Veritas Alta Classification integrates with Veritas Alta Archiving to analyze the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that Veritas Alta Archiving stores. The Veritas Alta Classification service assigns classification tags to those emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that match the classification policies your Veritas Alta Archiving system administrator has enabled.
Classification tag	The Veritas Alta Classification service assigns classification tags to the incoming emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that match the conditions of an enabled classification policy. Alta eDiscovery users can search on the classification tags as part of their eDiscovery work.
Custodian	In the context of Alta eDiscovery, a custodian is anyone for whom your organization holds or has held an archive account. When an eDiscovery Administrator creates a case, they assign the custodians that the associated eDiscovery is to include.
eDiscovery	eDiscovery is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information in response to a request for production in a law suit or investigation.
GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation. A regulation to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU). The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to unify data protection regulation within the EU.
Investigation	In the context of Alta eDiscovery, this term means to examine and discover the factors of a potentially legal inquiry.
Label	Apply a label to an email typically to mark it as exempt from the review process. The default labels are: Spam, Privileged, and Personal. You can create custom labels to suit your company's requirements.
Legal Hold	A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve relevant information for legal reasons.
Case	In law, a case is a subject that is in controversy or in dispute. In Alta eDiscovery an eDiscovery Administrator creates a case to act as a container in which to associate all the related emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files for such a subject.
Tag	In Alta eDiscovery a tag is a marker that can be applied to emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files to help organize the process of investigation or review. In the eDiscovery tab you can tag an email with a review status tag to indicate its status in the eDiscovery review process. You can apply your own custom tags to emails, collaboration messages, and files as you want, for example to retrieve identically tagged items easily at a later time. These tags are visible only to the user that applies them. You can tag items with a managed tag, if you have any of these available to you. Managed tags are created in the Veritas Alta View Compliance and Governance Management Console, under the My Config > Managed Tags node. If your company uses the Veritas Alta Classification service, the service can apply classification tags to the emails, attachments, collaboration chats, and files that match the enabled policies in the Veritas Alta Classification. You can search for these classification tags as part of your eDiscovery work. Note that the classification tags cannot be applied manually.