ISO/IEC 27050-1:2019

ISO/IEC 27050-1:2019 is the overview and concepts part of the electronic discovery series: the terminology of ESI, custodians, legal holds, spoliation, provenance and chain of custody; the objectives and the five foundation principles of competency, candour, cooperation, completeness and proportionality; governance with its risk, compliance and privacy aspects; ICT readiness through long-term retention, confidentiality and controlled destruction of ESI; planning and budgeting a project; the types (active, inactive, residual, legacy), sources (custodian, non-custodian, potentially excluded) and representations (native, near-native, image, hardcopy) of ESI and non-ESI material; the seven process elements of identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis and production; and presentation, chain of custody and provenance. Informative: no requirements; the requirements are in part 3, the governance guidance in part 2 and technical readiness in part 4. The foundation for legal hold, preservation and evidence-handling controls across the privacy, records and security frameworks.