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Digital Insights and Risk Management

Growing the business, protecting sensitive information and managing liability in a complex and dynamic environment – these are just a few of today’s organizational priorities in which enterprise data plays a critical role. How organizations, teams and stakeholders approach this data poses challenges and opportunities across the entire digital risk spectrum, including privacy, security, technology, legal, governance, risk and compliance.

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Digital Asset Investigations

Cryptocurrency and digital assets have created new challenges for corporations and law firms globally. Fraud, theft and misuse of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make headlines almost daily, and recent market volatility has significantly impacted crypto-native organizations and institutions that relied on their services. Legal teams are facing a new, rapidly evolving subject matter that requires significant technical know-how to explain complex subjects to various audiences.

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Confronting Data Risk with Expertise and Innovation

Amid an exponentially expanding universe of data, organisations are grappling with how to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, protect sensitive information and mitigate an ever-expanding landscape of risk.

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GDPR Breach Response and Analysis Services (France)

Over 16 billion records, including credit card and other sensitive personal data have been compromised since 2019 with breaches on the rise. Under the GDPR, companies have 72 hours to report a data breach to regulators, with potentially ruinous penalties should they fail to comply. Failure to demonstrate and document precautions taken, as well as the way a company responds to a breach, will define its future and that of the management team. Data breaches involving EU and UK personal data require an immediate, decisive and multi-disciplinary response.

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Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a Service (France)

Delivering efficient, cost-effective support of GDPR Data Protection Officer requirements

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Data Governance Solutions for Privacy and Compliance Needs (France)

Technology-driven advisory services designed to mitigate risk, improve business outcomes and realize value from enterprise data. For many large organisations with global operations, data is the connective tissue across multiple business divisions.

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Remote Data Collections

With speed, efficiency and defensibility, FTI Consulting applies a systematic approach to collecting electronic data across the globe without the need for physical deployment. Using custom and industry-standard tools, our experienced data collection specialists maintain the forensic integrity, defensibility and security of data throughout supported by full chain of custody tracking.

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Information Governance Services for Smarsh

Smarsh clients are taking proactive steps in the management of corporate communications to reduce their compliance risk and mitigate the rising cost of data management. With the Smarsh archive in place, further enhancements can help address broader challenges with corporate data across a diverse set of enterprise end-users that strengthen the ROI on this investment. FTI Technology provides a comprehensive suite of services to provide comfort that regulatory obligations are satisfied and business objectives are met.

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Risk & Compliance Services for Smarsh

Smarsh clients are investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to uncover risk, comply with regulations and safeguard corporate reputations. With growing concerns over the volume and variety of corporate communications and the increased potential for non-compliant behaviors to go undetected, it is necessary to leverage data and analytics to mitigate a wide range of risks. FTI Technology provides additional services in Risk & Compliance to address growing challenges and maintain a healthy compliance program while keeping control over the overall cost of compliance.

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Data Privacy Services (France)

Reliance on personal data grows and companies continue to innovate against a backdrop of enhanced privacy regulation, changing consumer privacy expectations, and shareholder demands for profitability. As a result, today’s organizations face a profoundly complicated regulatory, reputational, and operational data privacy risk environment. FTI Consulting’s Information Governance Privacy and Security team delivers practical business solutions that not only help organizations reduce the risk associated with privacy compliance obligations, but also recognize value in their personal data.

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Virtual Managed Review

FTI Technology’s award-winning managed review service is available with remote review management in a secure, virtual environment. Virtual Managed Review (VMR) provides efficient, cost-effective legal review with vetted lawyers accessing FTI’s secure review environment and following stringent remote review workflows and protocols.

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Legal Industry Services

Access to accurate information, analysed and verified by independent multidisciplinary experts, is a key success factor for you and your clients. Our professionals - technology, accountants, economists, construction and energy experts - support you in the challenges that may arise in legal or arbitration proceedings and investigations to ensure the success of your clients, no matter how complex their issues.

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Crisis Response and Reputation Management Services

With the GDPR now in force, companies have 72 hours to report a data breach, with potentially ruinous penalties should they fail to comply. Failure to demonstrate and document precautions taken, as well as the way a company responds to a breach, will define its future and that of the management team.

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FTI Technology Provides Complex, Time-Sensitive Investigation and Document Review for MÁSMÓVIL and Orange in International EU Merger

After entering an agreement to a largescale and complex cross-jurisdictional merger between telecommunications providers MÁSMÓVIL and Orange, both parties had to collect, review and produce internal documents as part of an extensive merger clearance investigation by European competition authorities. The parties engaged FTI Technology to lead discovery and document review for both organisations and support the needs of the merger review before its approval in February 2024.

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Forecasting Digital Risk in 2024

After a feverish period of disruption across many facets of technology, it’s becoming more difficult to delineate between what could happen and what will happen in the months and year ahead. Business leaders often rely upon industry forecasts to prepare for anticipated change that is likely to impact their operations, go-to-market strategies, hiring plans, etc. Yet in a hype-filled environment in which it seems like anything is possible, organizations must be highly discerning about how they prepare for evolving digital risk and establish resilience for future technological disruption.

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The 2024 General Counsel Report: General Counsel Indicate Tipping Points in Strategy, Technology Adoption and Operations - EMEA

Digital risk has triggered a fundamental shift in the corporate legal department. Against a tremulous cultural, economic and geopolitical backdrop, numerous issues have cascaded into tipping points across the legal function. Data-centered regulatory activity, privacy requirements, generative artificial intelligence disruption, technology advancement and an expansive web of emerging data sources are now impacting the way legal departments prioritize resources. In addition to placing tremendous demand on in-house counsel, this environment has led to a decline in the general counsel’s feelings of preparedness for every major risk category.

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Driving Innovative Client Solutions

At FTI Technology we drive innovative client solutions to solve data-related business challenges. Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem-solving provide our global clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Technology plays a key role in turning large and complex volumes of data into information that enables businesses to make informed decisions.

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Delivering on the Promise of “Cradle-to-Grave” Data Management in Large Financial Institutions

Financial institutions are grappling with significant, ongoing challenges in their management of valuable communications data. These challenges are driven by accelerated technology change, a wholesale shift to cloud platforms and many long-lasting changes in working practices and behaviors post-COVID. Financial institutions have experienced a seismic shift from an era where all communications data was stored in centralized servers within the walls of its enterprise data centers. Now, email, chat, voice and video along with other dynamic forms of collaborative content, is stored across a myriad of third-party communications channels and cloud-based platforms outside the perimeter of the enterprise.

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The State of Emerging Data 2023: An Overlapping Arrival and Departure - EMEA

Emerging data sources passed a tipping point this year. It was an expected turn for experts watching the evolution of systems, applications, technology adoption and communication habits over the past several years. Some understood that this year would bring an arrival of a new data reality. Indeed expectations have been validated — 71% of CIOs from the world’s largest organizations now say that the explosion of data is beyond human ability to manage. Simply, traditional data norms have been replaced by a complex, vast, dynamic and constantly changing data universe.

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Forensic Analysis and E-Discovery Complexities in Cloud-Based Investigations - EMEA

The corporate transition to the cloud continues to present significant, continually evolving challenges for discovery in disputes and investigations. The majority of enterprise data now reside in expansive cloud-based environments, and productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 promise robust discovery and compliance features, alongside a continually evolving feature set. As a result, there has been a trend towards conducting cloud-first and cloud-only data collection and preservation — a departure from the traditional approach of broadly collecting data from custodian devices, removable media and on-premises server-based sources.

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FTI Technology Helps Major National Bank Enhance Its Smarsh Deployment to Deliver Cross-Functional Single Source of Truth for Communications Data

After implementing Smarsh to archive all communications, a major national bank needed access across multiple end-user teams and functions, including legal, regulatory compliance and more. The bank engaged FTI Technology to provide access to this single source of communications data for a broader audience, thus enhancing the bank’s return on its initial technology implementation.

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The Most Valuable, Vulnerable Commodity - EMEIA

The FTI Technology Digital Insights & Risk Management Study, a comprehensive report that examines the extent to which organizations are recognizing the high stakes of data and effectively managing digital risk, involved senior business leaders from various global geographies and industries, with over 90% being at the executive level with primary or final decision-making authority.

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The 2023 General Counsel Report - EMEA

Risk is now at the centre of every conversation in the modern legal department. Over four consecutive years of study in the annual General Counsel Report, in-house counsel have expressed how they’ve been required to evolve and reinvent their roles. Once seen only as risk mitigators, they have become strategic business partners and have taken on an array of new responsibilities across a widening risk landscape.

Internal Investigations “à la Française”

In France, an internal investigation can introduce an array of key challenges for in-house and outside counsel who will need forensic technology experts to navigate new data challenges and ensure their internal investigation obligations are aligned with new guidelines released by the France National Bar Council (CNB).

Podcast (in French) |Data breach: How to Determine the Risk Level of a Personal Data Breach?

According to the French National Agency for Information Systems Security, the number of cyber-attacks has increased fourfold in 2020 due to the massive use of remote services since the beginning of the health crisis. In this episode, our FTI Consulting expert in information governance and personal data protection, Wajdi Kharrat, and Emilie Danglades Perez, lawyer at Simmons & Simmons, specialist in data protection and privacy and certified DPO, will discuss this major risk that affects all French companies and local authorities: cyber-attacks. What action plan should be implemented in the event of a cyber-attack? What are the notification obligations that arise from a data breach? The answer to these questions in our new episode of Avis d’Experts.

Dawn Raids: Anticipating and Taking the Right Preparation Steps (in French)

Today, no regulatory investigation occurs without companies’ electronic data being primarily targeted by investigators, resulting in mass seizure of this data. Rather than adopting a passive and fatalistic attitude in the face of this underlying trend – which can only increase given the explosion of data volumes – it is possible to limit their negative impacts and to avoid pitfalls by anticipating dawn raids and taking the right preparation steps. This article touches on how dawn raids are conducted by the different regulatory bodies in France, how to react and how to prepare from a practical perspective.

Podcast (in French) | Competition Authorities' Search: What to Expect During the Lockdown Period?

The competition authorities have not, a priori, conducted any searches since the first lockdown in March 2020. However, anti-competitive practices have not stopped during the health crisis and there is no doubt that the authorities' willingness to investigate any serious risk of infringement of free competition remains unchanged. In this episode, our forensics expert Thomas Sely and our public affairs expert Guillaume Binoche will discuss the ability of the authorities to conduct searches in the current health crisis context. They will consider the different scenarios and possible modus operandi for computer seizures, as well as the measures to take to best prepare for this eventuality. They will be joined in this discussion by Laura Castex, counsel in Gide's Antitrust team.