Many litigation support and computer forensic professionals have discovered a relatively new and easy way to reduce electronic discovery processing costs. How do they accomplish this reduction without missing potential evidence? By removing files that belong to Microsoft Windows and other common applications, the overall production is substantial reduced.

Common Microsoft Windows files are referred to as ‘known’ files and wouldn't have been created or modified by a custodian. The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) list contains more than 40 million known files and by filtering (Why deNISTing?) these files, prior to electronic discovery processing, a significant reduction can be realized.

Legal departments, forensic examiners and service bureaus use PG Pinpoint to filter custodian files (often 30-50% reduction) prior to EED processing and review. PG Pinpoint can significantly reduce production cost by deNISTing and deduping custodian files at a rate of 300-500 MB per minute.

PG Pinpoint Features:
Includes more than 40 million NIST hashes
MD5, SHA-1 and TIGER hash lists supported
Process 300 - 500MB per minute!
Customize hash lists
Identify encrypted files
Create forensically sound file copies
Compatible with all EED and litigation support applications

PG Pinpoint’s bit stream copy engine (SafeCopy 2) allows users to create copies of filtered files without altering the file timestamps, original metadata, or file contents. A chain of custody report is generated that contains the hash values for the original and copied files as well as their source and destination locations.