Security

Relativity employs a highly granular security architecture. This means that any object, such as a user, tag, field of metadata, document, collection of documents, or even highlights and redactions, can be secured, limiting access to users without permissions. Relativity system administrators have the ability to grant or deny any of these permissions on a customized basis. As system features, such as TIFF-on-the-fly, are secured, they disappear from the user’s context entirely. The database administrator is in complete control of what the user sees and the actions a user can perform on the data, allowing reviewers to focus on their assigned tasks without distraction.

Relativity’s security architecture allows a collection of data to undergo expert review in a limited environment, or in an expanded environment by the case team, eliminating the need for multiple iterations of the same database. Relativity increases productivity by streamlining the user interface so users are not hindered by superfluous options in the software, ultimately reducing the cost of document review.

In addition to workflow-based security, Relativity provides a variety of secure authentication methods. With a standard Microsoft infrastructure, Relativity allows IT teams to secure and back up data with the same strategies they employ for other enterprise systems.

Benefits of the Relativity security model include:

• Native files and TIFF images streamed into local memory, preventing fragments of sensitive documents from being left on a workstation hard drive
• User or group access restricted to specific IP addresses
• Restrictions on printing, copying text, and even disabling “print screen”
• Customized access where users see only the data, documents, and features to which they have rights
• The ability to create secure subsets of documents for experts and clients
• Securable coding forms, metadata fields, and document annotation/redactions, allowing for multi-party access
• RSA integration to provide Two-Factor authentication
• A secured 128-bit SSL encryption, the same used by online financial institutions storing personal information