Case Study
Government Investigations
Avalon | www.teamavalon.com 1 An Avalon client needed help responding to a government inquiry that involved a large volume of data. The client was motivated to comply with the pre-suit request in an attempt to dissuade the Department of Justice from filing a suit. The Challenge The client needed to collect data from 11 of their custodians’ entire digital footprint including office desktops, work laptops, and mobile devices. The initial volume of information collected was unmanageable—it consisted of roughly 20 million digital items, totaling nearly 6 TB of data. The Strategy Avalon was engaged to cull the dataset to a more manageable size. First, Avalon deleted any unnecessary system files by applying de-nisting protocol in conjunction with their own custom script to isolate sy