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Security Testing of Enterprise Vault & eDiscovery Solutions

Author(s) John Komarthi
Country United States
Abstract Enterprise Vault and eDiscovery platforms play a central role in the secure retention, indexing, search, and export of business-critical communications, including emails, legal documents, and audit trails. These systems are an integral part of legal compliance, regulatory audits, internal investigations, and detecting malicious insiders. Because of the nature and the sensitivity of the data that is managed, these systems are increasingly targeted by both external threats and malicious insider attacks. In this white paper, a practical and in-depth examination will be conducted of the security testing strategies that apply to these systems. This will outline an end-to-end approach that covers threat modelling, architectural review, vulnerability identification, and validation of the key security controls across storage, access, indexing, and export layers. In a technical assessment, it is identified that recurring weaknesses exist across multiple deployments, which include misconfigured role-based access controls, insecure API endpoints used for search and data export, insufficient encryption of archived data at rest, and gaps in audit log integrity and tamper detection. In multiple cases, the legacy documents and default configurations create exploitable conditions that can be leveraged to bypass data access restrictions or exfiltrate sensitive records. Based on these findings in this paper specific recommendations will be provided, including rigorous hardening of access controls, enforcement of least privilege at every layer, secure configuration of export workflows, and continuous monitoring of the system logs and user behavior. The importance of integrating eDiscovery and Vault systems into the organisation’s broader threat detection and incident response programs will be emphasized. As the regulatory expectations evolve and the legal stakes which are tied to data preservation grow, proactive security testing of archiving and discovery infrastructure is essential. This white paper aims to equip security teams with the methodology and technical insights that are required to validate and improve the security posture of critical systems.
Keywords Enterprise Vault Security, eDiscovery Security Testing, Archiving System Vulnerabilities, Data Retention Security, Security Assessment, Role-Based Access Control, API Security, Secure Data Export, Audit Trail Protection, Compliance Testing.
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Published In Volume 16, Issue 2, July-December 2025
Published On 2025-09-26
Cite This Security Testing of Enterprise Vault & eDiscovery Solutions - John Komarthi - IJAIDR Volume 16, Issue 2, July-December 2025. DOI 10.71097/IJAIDR.v16.i2.1582
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v16.i2.1582
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9626w
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