The term 'formal proceedings' also relates to the use
of IT in internal corporate procedures that might later
become the subject of formal legal proceedings; for
example, downloading pornography onto a company computer
or providing information that might lead to insider
trading offences.
Prime's Forensic IT Unit is recognized as a worldwide
leader, employing the latest techniques to investigate
and produce evidential information in electronic format.
In the UK, organisations such as the Financial Services
Agency and the Serious Fraud Office, and in the US,
the Department of Justice, banking regulators, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission, are demanding that
companies show they have clean hands.
In the past, responding to such requests would have
meant a trawl through paper-based records. Today it
means recovering e-mails, and attachments from corporate
hard drives, servers and backup tapes that may date
back several years.
In some cases this can mean companies have to trawl
through hundreds of thousands, or even millions of e-mails,
attachments and electronic documents for evidence,.
"Companies need to be able to demonstrate what
the facts are so they can know how to respond."
Once data is captured, forensic specialists use software
to identify and remove duplicate copies of files, and
to construct an index of every word in the recovered
e-mails and attachments.
This can be done in a matter of hours depending on the
volume of data. The difficult part is working out which
key words to search to produce the information a business
needs to satisfy the regulator. It can take four or
five days to refine the search.
All too often, companies fail to recognise just how
many electronic documents and e-mails they have on their
systems. This can lead to firms leaving it very late
in the day before they ask for help when faced with
compliance demands. Wide and varied!
Examples include:-
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Employee
internet abuse (common, but decreasing) |
|
Industrial
espionage |
|
Ensuring
security communications are readily available |
 |
Employee
internet abuse (common, but decreasing) |
|
Unauthorized
disclosure of corporate information and data (accidental
and intentional) |
|
Damage
assessment (following an incident) |
|
Criminal
fraud, credit card fraud and deception cases |
|
More
general criminal cases (many criminals simply
store information on computers, intentionally
or unwittingly) |
|
and
countless others! |
Our services
Our computer forensics professionals provide the skills
needed to deal with computer-related incidents. Whether
you are faced with an unauthorized network intrusion,
fraud or legal dispute, a successful outcome often depends
on proper collection and handling of computer evidence.
Our investigators here have the skills and tools to
obtain and preserve electronic evidence, analyse it
and present the results.
We use cutting edge software and technology including
EnCase© Forensic for the use in corporate investigations,
forensic accounting, brand protection, computer forensics
and financial/ consulting mangement. These solutions
are ideal for banks, financial institutions, large companies
running networks and government agencies/ departments.
EnCase© Forensic is a leader in computer forensic
investigation technology. With an intuitive GUI, superior
analytics, enhanced email/ Internet support and a powerful
scripting engine, EnCase provides investigators with
a single tool, capable of conducting large-scale and
complex investigations from beginning to end. Law enforcement
officers, government/ corporate investigators and consultants
around the world benefit from the power EnCase Forensic
in a way that far exceeds any other forensic solution.
EnCase software is a powerful, network-enabled, multiplatform,
enterprise investigation solution that dramatically
reduces cost and improves the effectiveness of information
security professionals, computer incident response teams
(CIRTs), eDiscovery auditors and forensic examiners.
With this revolutionary investigative tool, our specialists
can reach across the enterprise and respond to security
incidents, proactively investigate issues of fraud,
conduct forensics investigations and eDiscovery operations,
or perform network and software audits.
Government agencies and corporations increasingly turn
to Prime Defence for the complete development and implementation
of crisis management, emergency response plans and fraud
detection. Prime Defence works with its clients to establish
command procedures, train employees, co-ordinate rescue
and recovery efforts, and to keep operations running
securely.
