Digital Forensics
Technology Forensics provides a wide range of services related to Digital Forensics. We will secure evidence at your site, duplicate it and examine it using state-of-the-art technology. We document each step of the examination process from securing the evidence through acquiring the forensic duplicate and the evidentiary examination. Our reports are thoroughly readable and can be easily understood by clients at any level of technical ability.
Technology Forensics staff are experienced in examining many different types of digital devices - personal computers and Apple products, cellular telephones, computer networks, personal digital assistants and a host of other devices.
Practical Applications of Digital Forensics
- Marital and Divorce Investigations
- Employee misconduct
- Online child exploitation
- Hacking attempts
- Network Intrusion Detection and Analysis
- Identify Fraud
- Trace Internet communications - email, social networks, blogs
- Tracing Internet activity, website sources and ownership
- Cell phone activity – Verify and record text messages, SMS, etc.
- GPS data recovery/tracking reports/location based tracking
- Computer and Internet-facilitated civil and criminal defense
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What Can a Digital Forensic Examination Tell You?
In many cases, a Digital Forensic Examination can tell what a digital device like a computer, phone, network device, USB stick/thumb drive or GPS has stored, what has been altered and when and what has been deleted from it. Many times, Internet activity, email, and other communications can be recovered.
For cell phones, items like email and text messages (including deleted items), photos, videos, dialing records, durations of calls, times and dates can be discovered from interrogated cell phones.
For computers, items such as email records (including deleted items), photos, videos, pornography, banking transactions, dating /sexually explicit websites and associated accounts. Many Instant Message clients such as Facebook chat and MSN Messenger leave data and sometimes even transcripts of chats that we can discover. Social media information posted on Facebook, Tumblr, Formspring and FourSquare are all possible to discover during an examination.
Digital Forensics can help produce considerable information about activity conducted on computer networks after the fact such as interrogation of access lists, log file analysis, intrusion detection, data loss analysis and recovery as well as many other items based on the hardware and systems used in the network.
Our experience has proved that this data referenced above, especially when pieced together, proves invaluable to investigators.
How does the process work?
Technology Forensics uses state of the art equipment and techniques developed and refined over the last 20 years. These tools and techniques are highly specialized and require intensive training. The tools that we use for hardware and software examinations are highly sophisticated and are not always available to the casual user or local IT firm.
With platforms like computers and cell phones, we require that we have the device in our secure lab for examination by our technicians. We can arrange for a secure chain of custody by having our technicians or corporate officers pick up the device at your location and secure it as evidence in a tamper-proof container for transport to our facility. This is the best option for devices that will be used as evidence in any type of court proceeding.
Alternately, you can have the device shipped to us for examination and we advise that we speak to you about the best way to accomplish this.
Examination of Other Experts' Work
We has testified as an expert witnesses in countless criminal and civil cases and are experienced veterans versed in the practice of law, the mechanics of law enforcement and the courtroom. This is a skill set few computer forensics firms offer. Today it’s not enough to just be a computer professional, you have to be aware of the way the legal system functions and how to best present evidentiary items to the satisfaction of the court. Few experts have the law enforcement, investigative, legal and digital forensic background to effectively evaluate the work of our Digital Evidence Experts. Technology Forensics has the experience and the expertise to advise counsel or the court as to whether a previously conducted digital forensic examination accurately identifies pertinent evidence and if there are weaknesses or discrepancies in the examination's findings.
Contact us for real-world practical answers to questions you may have about our services in this area.