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Spin.AI Transforms eDiscovery by Building on SaaS Data Protection Capabilities

Sep 3, 2025 | Reading time 10 minutes
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The eDiscovery landscape has reached a critical inflection point. While legal teams face increasingly complex data environments and sophisticated cyber threats, traditional eDiscovery solutions continue to fail mid-market organizations with inadequate security, prohibitive costs, and limited capabilities. Today, Spin.AI announces a revolutionary approach that addresses these fundamental challenges by introducing the industry’s first eDiscovery solution built on proven data protection capabilities.

Challenges in Modern eDiscovery

As HR and legal requirements continue to compound, modern organizations face growing legal and compliance pressure to deliver enterprise-level eDiscovery outcomes. Yet, most organizations don’t have room for the overhead or complexity of enterprise solutions, most of which are dated anyway. They’re trapped in an impossible choice: overspend on enterprise-grade tools that exceed their needs and budgets, or settle for inadequate solutions that expose them to legal and security risks.

Vendor Management Burdens

The time and financial burdens of traditional eDiscovery solutions, yet one more software to add to your environment, creates additional friction for mid-market organizations. High costs associated with enterprise eDiscovery solutions make them prohibitively expensive, and there’s the additional cost of your time spent managing the tool, your vendor, etc. Yet these organizations face increasingly complex legal and compliance requirements that basic tools cannot address.

This creates operational inefficiencies where organizations either over-provision expensive enterprise tools for simple cases or under-provision basic tools for complex matters requiring advanced features. Many end up maintaining multiple solutions, increasing complexity and total cost of ownership while creating data silos that complicate legal discovery processes.

The Modern Data Challenge

Adding to these concerns, the complexity of managing large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) has exploded. The data explosion impact of agentic AI, remote work, and the proliferation of virtual collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack have created new challenges for data management that many eDiscovery tools simply cannot handle effectively. There’s too much data to manage, and it lives in too many places.

Data privacy concerns have also become a major market challenge, with mid-market organizations often lacking dedicated privacy officers or comprehensive data governance frameworks. This makes it difficult to ensure eDiscovery tools meet regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions while maintaining the security and access controls necessary for legal discovery.

The Security Vulnerability Crisis in eDiscovery

The most alarming trend is the successful targeting of eDiscovery providers themselves. The 2020 Epiq ransomware attack demonstrated just how vulnerable legal data can be when stored in traditional eDiscovery platforms. Epiq, a global leader in legal services, was forced to take systems offline globally after confirming a ransomware attack, impacting customers using their instances of Relativity and preventing legal teams from accessing critical case data.

This attack highlighted a fundamental problem: eDiscovery platforms have become high-value targets for cybercriminals because they contain concentrated repositories of sensitive legal information, corporate secrets, and personal data. The aftermath forced the industry to rethink data storage and network segregation approaches, revealing that many providers were inadequately prepared for sophisticated ransomware attacks.

Introducing Spin.AI’s Revolutionary eDiscovery Solution

Recognizing these fundamental challenges, Spin.AI has developed an entirely new approach to eDiscovery that leverages our proven SpinBackup Enterprise platform, already protected by our industry-leading SaaS security capabilities. This solution transforms how organizations approach legal discovery by building an eDiscovery solution on top of an existing comprehensive data protection and business continuity framework.

Comprehensive Data Coverage 

Our eDiscovery solution leverages the comprehensive coverage of SpinBackup and SpinOne to provide access to modern data sources that challenge traditional eDiscovery tools, like email, chat, calendar, shared and individual users’ file storage, and includes all your archived users. 

This comprehensive coverage addresses the modern data source gaps that plague mid-market organizations, particularly around collaboration tools like Teams and Slack where critical business communications occur. Our solution eliminates the coverage gaps that can result in incomplete discovery or legal sanctions.

Further, our archiving services for retired Google Workspace™ and Microsoft 365 user accounts solve a common eDiscovery challenge by maintaining secure, searchable access to data from former employees whose accounts have been deactivated but whose communications may be relevant to ongoing or future litigation. 

Vendor Consolidation and Streamlined Solutions

The average number of 3rd party applications used across midmarket companies is an astounding 335. No wonder trends are pointing to reducing vendor management burdens. According to Gartner, 75% of organizations will consolidate their cloud-native solutions down to 3. That means every solution they purchase will have multiple uses across the organization. 

We understand the burden it puts on IT teams to maintain numerous platforms. That’s exactly why we added eDiscovery to the list of capabilities offered by SpinOne and SpinBackup. It’s the same data you’re already protecting. Why procure one more software just to make it usable for your legal team? Consolidation is just smart resource management.

Advanced Search and Query Capabilities

The solution provides sophisticated search and query capabilities that allow legal teams to access backed-up, archived data for immediate eDiscovery purposes. Users can search based on words, phrases, users, or time periods, with flexible selection of specific applications for targeted results.

This eliminates the complexity and cost associated with moving data between systems or maintaining separate eDiscovery repositories. Legal teams can perform comprehensive searches across their entire data environment without the traditional barriers that slow discovery processes and increase costs.

eDiscovery Case Privacy by Default 

When you open a case with our eDiscovery solution, only the people you choose will have access to it. That means you can limit it to a single HR user, a small selection of legal personnel, and anyone else who is in a need-to-know role with your investigation. Whether you’re simply looking into a concern raised by one of your employees, or you need to respond to a legal request, you have all the privacy protection you need to ensure your organization’s sensitive matters won’t fall into the hands of the wrong people. Even tool administrators don’t have access unless you grant it to them.

Further, you can set or adjust an expiration date on cases to close within a set period of time. When a case is closed, it’s closed. 

Seamless Integration with Business Continuity

Unlike standalone eDiscovery tools that operate in isolation, our solution integrates legal discovery needs with broader business continuity planning. The underlying SpinBackup Enterprise platform makes incremental backups of SaaS environments 1-3 times daily, ensuring complete data availability and audit trails necessary for defensible eDiscovery processes.

This integration means that legal teams benefit from the same enterprise-grade backup, security, and recovery capabilities that protect the entire organization, rather than relying on separate, potentially vulnerable eDiscovery systems.

Built on a Trusted, Secure Architecture

At the foundation of our eDiscovery solution lies Spin.AI’s uncompromising security architecture. Our multi-layered security approach includes multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access control for administrators, with data stored in client-selected locations to meet regional data residency requirements. This comprehensive security framework is validated through our HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR compliance, Data Privacy Framework certification, CSA certification, and SOC 2 Type II audit.

Unlike traditional eDiscovery tools that have proven vulnerable to data exposure and outside attacks, our solution employs military-grade encryption methods for data at rest and in transit, ensuring backed-up data always remains encrypted using the latest secure algorithms and protocols.

We use TLS 1.3 for data transmissions and AES-256 for stored data encryption, but our security goes far beyond industry standards. Instead of implementing encryption at the storage level, we encrypt each backed-up data object — every email, document, contact, and file — with a unique encryption key. 

The Competitive Advantage

Our integrated approach fundamentally changes the eDiscovery value proposition by addressing every major challenge facing mid-market organizations:

Simplified Vendor Management: Instead of managing multiple vendors for backup, security, and eDiscovery, organizations can work with a single, proven provider. This reduces vendor management complexity, eliminates the need for separate security assessments, and simplifies compliance oversight. 

Cost Efficiency: By building on existing backup infrastructure, we eliminate the need for separate eDiscovery data repositories and reduce total cost of ownership. 

Scalability and Flexibility: Our solution scales seamlessly with organizational needs, providing sophisticated capabilities for complex matters while remaining cost-effective for routine cases. Organizations no longer need to choose between over-provisioning or under-provisioning their eDiscovery capabilities.

Enhanced Compliance and Defensibility: The solution inherits SpinOne’s comprehensive compliance certifications and automated backup processes, ensuring complete audit trails and data integrity. This addresses the compliance and defensibility concerns that challenge mid-market organizations lacking dedicated legal technology teams.

Reduced Skills Gap Impact: Our intuitive interface and comprehensive support reduce the specialized expertise required for effective eDiscovery, enabling existing legal, IT, and security teams to manage discovery processes more effectively.

The Future of Secure eDiscovery

As the eDiscovery market continues to evolve, Spin.AI’s solution represents the next generation of eDiscovery technology.

We’re not just offering another eDiscovery tool; we’re providing a comprehensive solution that embeds legal discovery capabilities within a proven data protection, SaaS security, and business continuity framework. This approach ensures that as cyber threats evolve and data environments become more complex, our clients remain protected and compliant.

This eDiscovery solution doesn’t just meet current needs — it anticipates and addresses future challenges.

Experience the Difference

Mid-market organizations no longer need to choose between inadequate tools and expensive enterprise solutions. Spin.AI’s eDiscovery solution provides enterprise-grade capabilities with the simplicity, security, and cost-effectiveness that growing organizations require.

With our proven track record of protecting organizations from ransomware attacks, comprehensive compliance certifications, and innovative approach to data protection, we’re ready to transform how your organization approaches legal discovery.

The future of eDiscovery is here—secure, efficient, and built for the challenges of tomorrow. Experience the Spin.AI difference and discover why leading organizations trust us to protect their most critical data while enabling their legal teams to succeed.

Learn more about how our revolutionary eDiscovery solution can transform your organization’s approach to legal discovery while providing the security and peace of mind your business deserves.

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Global Solutions Engineer at Spin.AI

Rainier Gracial has a diverse tech career, starting as an MSP Sales Representative at VPLS. He then moved to Zenlayer, where he advanced from being a Data Center Engineer to a Global Solutions Engineer. Currently, at Spin.AI, Rainier applies his expertise as a Global Solutions Engineer, focusing on SaaS based Security and Backup solutions for clients around the world. As a cybersecurity expert, Rainier focuses on combating ransomware, disaster recovery, Shadow IT, and data leak/loss prevention.

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