Courts see the characteristics of “authentication” as comprising of reliability (there is evidence that records are created and captured as part of the legitimate business process, and they are subject to a corporate management process), integrity (the document is provably protected from unauthorized alteration) and usability (the document is capable of being retrieved, presented and interpreted correctly). The ability of organizations to demonstrate these characteristics, taken together, will become fundamental to establishing the authenticity and evidential admissibility of electronic documents in coming years.