How might a large corporation defend against allegations tha

How might a large corporation defend against allegations that it intentionally failed to preserve electronic data that a party is attempting to review as part of a discovery request?

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It is very important for any organization/corporation to protect its data in any form. Data contains sensitive information failing to preserve will lead to reputation loss and other losses such as losing of contracts with customers etc. A large corporation can take below defend against allegations that it intentionally failed to preserve electronic data-

(1) Organization system that shows that leakage of any sensitive data is not possible.

(2) Not having correct data with that party which is attempting to review it.

(3) Correspondence with the party showing that corporation has denied to provide the data.

(4) Party\'s further request to provide data which includes the earlier request as well.

(5) Convince to party to itself confirm that corporation has not provided it requested data.