Extract from Reveal’s article, “How Client Security Requirements Shape eDiscovery Deployment.”
The cost of a breach keeps rising for the organizations that hold the most sensitive data. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the global average cost of a breach fell to $4.44 million, while the US average reached a record $10.22 million. Corporate clients extend their security expectations to every firm and provider that touches their data, through outside counsel guidelines, security questionnaires, and audit rights.
Those requirements increasingly decide which eDiscovery platform a matter can use. A law firm may win the engagement and then learn that the client requires data to stay in a specific region, in a dedicated environment, or on infrastructure the client controls. In those cases, the deployment model decides whether the firm can say yes.
