RISK & COMPLIANCE SUPPORT
Data Breach &
Incident Response
Lineal manages the data side of incident response, combining forensic preservation, AI-driven data identification, and defensible reporting workflows designed for modern enterprise environments and regulatory timelines.
Talk to an Expert Built for Incident Timelines
and Regulatory Deadlines
Incident response demands speed and a defensible process at the same time.
These numbers show how Lineal delivers both.
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Structured records processed in a single Fortune 20 ransomware response.
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Federal and state notification deadlines met with defensible output
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Large-scale manual review required through automated detection workflows.
A Coordinated Approach to the
Data Side of Incident Response
Incident response involves multiple vendors and systems. Our approach ensures preservation,
analysis, review, and reporting are aligned, allowing organizations to move from investigation to
resolution without delays.
STEP 1
Engage and Scope
Early coordination creates clarity around stakeholders, timelines, systems, and preservation requirements before response activity accelerates.
- Define the incident perimeter across cloud, on-premise, structured, and collaboration systems
- Coordinate regulatory deadlines, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths
- Establish preservation and chain of custody procedures from the start
Result:
A clearly defined response framework aligned to the incident scope, stakeholders, and regulatory obligations.
STEP 2
Forensic Preservation
and CollectionPreservation workflows are designed to protect evidence integrity while supporting downstream investigation, review, and reporting efforts.
- Perform forensic collection across M365, Google Workspace, endpoints, mobile devices, and structured systems
- Coordinate with external forensic investigators, breach counsel, and cyber insurance stakeholders
- Maintain documented chain of custody and validation procedures throughout collection activity
Result:
Defensible evidence collections prepared for investigation, analysis, and response activity.
STEP 3
AI-Driven Data Identification
Modern incidents generate large volumes of structured and unstructured data that need to be analyzed quickly without creating unnecessary manual review bottlenecks.
- Use Amplify™ and Relativity aiR to identify PII, PHI, NPPI, FERPA, and confidential business data
- Analyze structured, unstructured, and multilingual datasets across enterprise systems
- Reduce review populations through automated classification and defensible detection workflows
Result:
Affected data and impacted populations identified with speed, consistency, and defensible oversight.
STEP 4
Defensible Output and Reporting
Organizations need reporting workflows that support both immediate response activity and future scrutiny from regulators, auditors, or litigation teams.
- Generate notification populations, reporting outputs, and jurisdiction-specific deliverables
- Support internal investigations, regulator inquiries, and breach notification requirements
- Coordinate output across breach counsel, IR firms, notification vendors, and internal stakeholders
Result:
A defensible operational record from incident scope through resolution or notification.
Why Lineal
Built for the Operational Reality of Incident Response
Incident response runs on coordination as much as technology. Lineal combines forensic preservation, AI-driven detection, and managed workflows so analysis, reporting, and notification stay connected.
Aligned to Regulatory Timelines
Regulatory deadlines move quickly, especially when multiple jurisdictions are involved. Our workflows are designed to support rapid response activity while maintaining defensible documentation and reporting throughout the process.
Designed for Modern Data Environments
Sensitive information rarely lives in one place. We analyze structured and unstructured data across collaboration platforms, cloud systems, and enterprise applications.
Defensibility Embedded into the Workflow
Methodology, preservation activity, and decision logic are documented throughout the engagement, so organizations can show how conclusions and notification decisions were reached.
Coordinated Across Legal, Security, and Response Teams
Our workflow keeps response activity connected across breach counsel, IR firms, cyber insurance, and executive stakeholders.
Technology in Action
Technology Alone Doesn’t Resolve
Incidents. Operational Workflow
Does.
Modern incident response requires multiple technologies working together across preservation, analysis,
review, and reporting. Lineal integrates those workflows into a coordinated operating model designed to
reduce friction between systems, stakeholders, and downstream response activity.
Amplify™ Suite of Tools + Relativity
Lineal’s proprietary workflow environment for modern legal and regulatory data. Amplify™ supports chat reconstruction, message filtering, visual classification, privilege workflows, and downstream review operations directly within Relativity.
Relativity aiR for Personal Data Detection
AI-driven detection workflows identify PII, PHI, NPPI, FERPA, and sensitive business information across multilingual datasets, helping organizations accelerate analysis while reducing large-scale manual review requirements.
Microsoft Purview & Google Vault
Lineal manages preservation, collection, search, and export workflows across M365 and Google Workspace environments, supporting defensible handling of modern collaboration and attachment data without adding operational burden to internal teams.
ChatCraft for Threaded Communication Reconstruction
ChatCraft reconstructs threaded conversations across Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, and modern collaboration platforms so investigators and response teams can analyze communications with full conversational context preserved.
Industry & Role Applications
For Teams Managing Incident
Response Across Legal, Security,
and Compliance
Designed for organizations responsible for coordinating investigations, preservation,
regulatory response, and defensible reporting during security and privacy incidents.
Incident Response & Breach Counsel
Support for investigations, notification workflows, and defensible reporting across matters involving regulatory scrutiny, litigation exposure, or large-scale data analysis requirements.
Compliance, Privacy &
Information GovernanceOperational response workflows aligned to existing security operations, privacy obligations, and regulatory requirements across modern enterprise environments.
Cyber Insurance & Forensic
PartnersCoordinated workflows, shared visibility, and clearly defined operational ownership across breach counsel, forensic investigators, insurers, and downstream notification providers.
Case Studies
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Corporate
Accelerating Multi-Jurisdiction Competition Audit Review
Challenge:
Seven countries. Nine languages. 8.6 million documents. A competition law audit that traditional review could not finish in time.
Outcome:
Audit completed on time. Out of 8.6 million documents loaded, only 87,000 required human review. Defensible, regulator-ready results across every jurisdiction.
8.6M
Documents loaded across seven countries and nine languages.
~87K
Documents actually reviewed. A fraction of the total population.
7 Countries, 9 Languages
Consistent, defensible relevance determinations across every jurisdiction.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Financial services, Investigations
Anti-Money Laundering Investigation for a Global Bank
Challenge:
A major global bank faced an AML investigation requiring review of 12+ million documents under a strict 3-month deadline. High-risk data patterns needed precise identification, and the cost of a traditional review approach was not an option.
Outcome:
Lineal reduced review volume by 97%. Fewer than 3% of documents required manual assessment. Deadline met, defensible results delivered, fixed fee.
97%
Review volume reduced with less than 3% of documents touched by human reviewers.
12M+
Documents processed using AI-powered categorization and clustering.
3 Months
Regulatory deadline met with no delays.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Defensible Scope Reduction in High-Stakes Pharmaceutical IP Litigation
Challenge:
A Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company needed to review a large, complex document population under litigation pressure. Traditional first-pass review models would have been too slow, too expensive, and too inconsistent.
Outcome:
Lineal eliminated first-pass review entirely. Over 95% of the document population was reduced before a human reviewer saw a single document. Full defensibility maintained.
95%+
Review volume reduced before human review began.
70%
Additional reduction post-Amplify™ through AI-assisted relevance assessment.
100%
Defensible decisions with documented, SME-governed coding logic.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Law Firms
Document Review in Criminal Investigation
Challenge:
52,795 FBI-provided documents for the Andrade criminal investigation. A status conference deadline. The case team needed to move beyond linear review and organize the full universe by concept.
Outcome:
Amplify™ tools covered 98% of the document universe. Textual Near Duplicate Identification handled 68%. Lineal Images addressed the remaining 30% of image file types. Deadline met.
52,795
FBI-provided documents reviewed for the status conference.
68%
Document universe addressed by Textual Near Duplicate Identification.
30%
Image file types addressed by Lineal Images classification.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Law Firms
Efficient Data Management for a Complex Legal Dispute
Challenge:
3 million documents from 140+ custodians, transferred from a previous vendor. The data needed to be verified for completeness, then the legal team needed a fast path to the evidence that mattered.
Outcome:
The full Amplify™ Suite of Tools cut through the volume. Email threading, BotDetector, PrivFinder, Snippets, and Lineal Images each took a layer off until the legal team had a clear path to relevant evidence.
3M
Documents processed from 140+ custodians.
641,098
Documents reduced through email threading alone.
731,681
Documents ring-fenced for targeted privilege review with PrivFinder.
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Industry: Corporate
High-Volume Data Breach Response for a Fortune 20 Retailer
Challenge:
A major ransomware incident. 22 million structured records with PII and PHI exposed. Three weeks to figure out who was affected and meet federal and state notification requirements.
Outcome:
Lineal delivered a precise breach assessment within the deadline. Defensible, regulator-ready output. Reduced class-action exposure through accurate identification of affected individuals.
22M+
Structured records processed containing PII and PHI.
3 Weeks
Regulatory notification deadline met with defensible output.
0
Large-scale manual review required. Automated detection throughout.
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