Systems and methods for cascading destruction of electronic data in electronic evidence management

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for managing the destruction of documents in an organization that includes a cascaded destruction of the documents in distributed systems. The systems and methods include capturing electronic evidence in a central evidence management system as objects from sources in the distributed systems. The objects are stored in a repository. When documents are eligible to be deleted, the central evidence management system destroys the objects representing the documents in the repository. A delete command is sent to agents at the sources in the distributed system that causes the agents to delete and destroy the documents from the file systems in the distributed systems.