What is Computer Forensics?
Computer forensics is the practice of collecting, analysing and reporting on digital data in a way that is legally admissible. It can be used in the detection and prevention of crime and in any dispute where evidence is stored digitally.
What can you achieve by performing Computer Forensics?
When your business has been breached, there are certain steps that you need to follow, especially if you are in the EU as part of the GDPR compliance, you must work on a series of procedures before you start to respond and recover. Not many companies are set properly to act when such things happen, few of them have a system to easily access logs, processes to start the reverse trace of finding the root of the attack. This also can result in a Ransomware locking all files, and without proper backup, could be catastrophic to a company without recovery.
Computers may constitute a ‘scene of a crime’, for example with hacking or denial of service attacks or they may hold evidence in the form of emails, internet history, documents or other files relevant the case that needs to be presented.
It is not just the content of emails, documents and other files which may be of interest to investigators but also the ‘metadata’ associated with those files. A computer forensic examination may reveal when a document first appeared on a computer, when it was last edited, when it was last saved or printed and which user carried out these actions.
More recently, commercial organisations have used computer forensics to their benefit in a variety of cases:
- Intellectual Property theft
- Industrial espionage
- Rogue Employees
- Fraud investigations
- Regulatory compliance
Ranging from a variety of sections computer forensics can empower the outcome of what you are after, due to the nature of working with such tools for years, we will guarantee the final result which is the most important aspect of working together, and that is to make a valid statement, based on a forensic digital evidence that can be used in a court of law, or conviction protecting your privacy, business and complying with the regulations accordingly.
Computer Forensics are ideal for Computer Machines such as Notebooks, PCs, Servers.
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