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Certified ISO27050 Practitioner

FORMAT/STYLE

eCourseware / Self-paced online

Or Instructor Led Training

DURATION

12 Hours 

INTENDED AUDIENCE

  • Project managers and consultants involved in and concerned with the implementation of eDiscovery
  • Expert advisors seeking to master the implementation of an eDiscovery
  • Individuals responsible for ensuring conformity to EDRM within an organisation
  • Members of an eDiscovery implementation team

Prerequisite

The main requirement for participating in this training course is having a general knowledge of the eDiscovery concepts.

REGISTRATION

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Certified ISO/IEC 27050 Practitioner

Ready to turn your hands-on eDiscovery skills into globally recognised professional expertise? 

The Certified ISO27050 Practitioner Course empowers technicians, analysts, and implementation team members to master the ISO/IEC 27050 standard — the international benchmark for structured, defensible, and secure electronic discovery. 

This practical, vendor-neutral online training goes beyond basics to give you the principles, frameworks, and operational confidence needed to manage eDiscovery with precision and credibility. You’ll learn how to interpret ISO/IEC 27050’s guidance for governance, technical readiness, and best practices — all tailored to the real-world needs of technical practitioners. 

awareness of the issues and challenges involved in implementing an information security management system.

Learning Outcomes

You’ll learn how to:

  1. Describe the scope and purpose of the ISO/IEC 27050 standard, including its role in governing electronic discovery (eDiscovery) processes and terminology. 
  2. Explain the obligations and principles related to preservation, collection, review, and production of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) within the context of a defensible eDiscovery process. 
  3. Identify and characterise different types and sources of ESI relevant to legal, regulatory, and investigative contexts. 
  4. Apply ISO/IEC 27050 guidance to map and manage key stages of the eDiscovery lifecycle, including identification, preservation, collection, processing, and review. 
  5. Demonstrate an awareness of common challenges in implementing eDiscovery best practices, and describe how ISO/IEC 27050 principles help address issues related to data integrity, traceability, and legal defensibility. 
  6. Interpret how the ISO/IEC 27050 framework supports secure, auditable eDiscovery practices that align with broader information security management objectives. 
  7. Evaluate real-world eDiscovery scenarios and case-based exercises to apply ISO/IEC 27050 concepts in practical settings. 
  8. Prepare for further application of ISO/IEC 27050 principles in organisational processes, supporting improved compliance, risk management, and standards-based evidence handling

Syllabus

  1. Identification: ESI that is potentially relevant to a case is identified, along with its locations, custodians, sizes/volumes etc.  preserved
  2. Preservation: the identified, potentially relevant ESI is placed under a legal hold, starting the formalized forensic process designed to ensure, beyond doubt, that they are protected through the remaining steps against threats.
  3. Collection: the ESI is collected from the original custodian, typically by physically removing the original digital storage media (hard drives, memory sticks and cards, CDs, DVDs, whatever).
  4. Processing: forensic bit-copies are stored in a form that allows them to be searched or analysed for information that is relevant to the case, using suitable forensic tools and platforms. 
  5. Review: forensic bit-copies are searched or analysed for information that is relevant to the case.
  6. Analysis: the information is further analysed and assessed as to its relevance, suitability, weight, meaning, implications etc. Useful information is gleaned from the selected data.
  7. Production: relevant information from the analysis, plus the original storage media etc., is formally presented to the court as evidence.

ISO/IEC 27050-1:2019 — Part 1: Overview and concepts

ISO/IEC 27050-2:2018 — Part 2: Guidance for governance and management of electronic discovery

ISO/IEC 27050-3:2020 —Part 3: Code of practice for electronic discovery

ISO/IEC 27050-4:2021 — Part 4: Technical readiness