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“We have developed networking "spiders" and "crawlers" and we go into the OS of the laptop and access the filers,” says Muddu. “We can discover the file systems and the documents on each of them.”

Kazeon’s virtual creepy crawlies communicate with the OS, the file system access protocols, the TCP/IP protocols, and the email repositories to lock down sensitive documents.

"We send a command out to change the metadata permissions, security permissions, and ownership permissions,” says Muddu, adding that eight early adopters are currently testing the technology.

Kazeon’s rival Autonomy Zantaz already offers desktop and laptop legal hold, although this requires a piece of client software running on the devices.

The Kazeon CEO nonetheless admits that, with a $30,000 list price for IS1200-ECS version 3.1, the solution is not suited to all users’ needs.