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Forensics

Computer forensics is the application of investigational techniques, analysis and recording of legal evidence.

• Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud

• Computer specialists can draw on an array of methods for discovering data that resides in a computer system, or recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information.

  • Any or all of this information may help during discovery, depositions, or actual litigation

Protection of evidence is critical

A knowledgeable computer forensics professional will ensure that a subject computer system is carefully handled to ensure that:

• No possible evidence is damaged, destroyed, or otherwise compromised by the procedures used to investigate the computer.

• No possible computer virus is introduced to a subject computer during the analysis process.

• Extracted and possibly relevant evidence is properly handled and protected from later mechanical or electromagnetic damage.

• A continuing chain of custody is established and maintained.

• Business operations are affected for a limited amount of time, if at all.

• Any client-attorney information that is inadvertently acquired during a forensic exploration is ethically and legally respected and not divulged

• Insure they identify and attempt to retrieve possible evidence that may exist on a subject computer system
   

  • Protect the subject computer system during the forensic examination from any possible alteration, damage, data corruption, or virus introduction

  • Discover all files on the subject system. This includes existing normal files, deleted yet remaining files, hidden files, password-protected files, and encrypted files

  • Recover all (or as much as possible) of discovered deleted files

  • Reveals (to the extent possible) the contents of hidden files as well as temporary or swap files used by both the application programs and the operating system

  • Accesses (if possible and if legally appropriate) the contents of protected or encrypted files

  • Analyzes all possibly relevant data found in special (and typically inaccessible) areas of a disk

    • This includes but is not limited to what is called 'unallocated' space on a disk (currently unused, but possibly the repository of previous data that is relevant evidence), as well as 'slack' space in a file (the remnant area at the end of a file, in the last assigned disk cluster, that is unused by current file data, but once again may be a possible site for previously created and relevant evidence)

  • Prints out an overall analysis of the subject computer system

  • Lists all possibly relevant files and discovered file data

  • Provides an opinion of the system layout, the file structures discovered, any discovered data and authorship information, any attempts to hide, delete, protect, encrypt information, and anything else that has been discovered and appears to be relevant to the overall computer system examination

Provides expert consultation and/or testimony, as required

PC Forensics - Users

• Criminal Prosecutors use computer evidence in a variety of crimes where incriminating documents can be found: homicides, financial fraud, drug and embezzlement record-keeping, and child pornography

• Civil litigations can readily make use of personal and business records found on computer systems that bear on: fraud, divorce, discrimination, and harassment cases

• Insurance Companies may be able to mitigate costs by using discovered computer evidence of possible fraud in accident, arson, and workman's compensation cases

• Corporations often hire computer forensics specialists to ascertain evidence relating to: sexual harassment, embezzlement, theft or misappropriation of trade secrets and other internal/confidential information

• Law Enforcement Officials frequently require assistance in pre-search warrant preparations and post-seizure handling of the computer equipment

• Individuals sometimes hire computer forensics specialists in support of possible claims of: wrongful termination, sexual harassment, or age discrimination

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