Legal and Forensics Services


Legal Professionals and businesses have a new appreciation for the value of electronic evidence. In many cases, computers are the repositories for essential digital evidence or leads. Communications sent via e-mail or files on a computer can make or break a case. We can help you recover this digital "paper trail” -- even erased files -- to ensure you have all the evidence available to support your case.

While high profile computer crimes receive the most press coverage, internal abuse such as unauthorized software, illicit or illegal use of the corporate computer system, use for personal profit, etc. accounts for a majority of corporate security breaches. (Source: The 2001 Information Security Industry Survey) Secure20’s computer forensics services staff has the technical knowledge and ability, as well as the investigative expertise to quickly respond to your computer forensics requirements.

Secure20 can assist you in finding and examining the computer information that is important to your case. We use a variety of computer investigation techniques for accessing information on a wide assortment of computer platforms and media.

Drawing on our experience in the Banking Security & Technology industry, we provide thorough, tightly controlled and fully documented examinations of your computer media. All information is treated in strict confidence.

Our computer forensics services include:

  • Assisting in preparation of discovery requests for electronic data.
  • Assistance with On-site seizure of evidence.
  • Ensuring proper chain of custody for evidence.
  • Thorough processing of the information. Complete analysis of the findings.
  • Reporting the findings in a clear and concise manner.

Litigation Support Services

Meeting the challenges of litigation can stress resources of the in-house IT staff. Civil and criminal litigations increasingly involve computerized data of one sort or another. In many cases, data stored on various computer media and in various file format plays a pivotal role. Ably dealing with this data, in the course of discovery, can be instrumental to success at trial or negotiation. Secure20 has been helping companies in meeting these challenges by offering assistance with reading computer archives of all types and evidence discovery.
In addition, Secure20 does forensic investigation work necessary to uncover corrupted or purposely destroyed computer based evidence.

Other types of litigation and Investigative Support that we can provide:

  • Corporate Investigations
  • Personnel Investigations
  • Background Screening
  • Asset & Property Searches
  • Criminal Records Searches
  • Judgment & Lien Searches
  • Technical Support for Successful Interviews & Depositions

Forensic Data Recovery and Analysis

During the course of business operation a lot of invaluable data is stored on computer media. Secure20 can assist companies with recovering the business critical data from failed hard drives, tapes, or cartridges. Secure20 can also recover data from corrupted databases and e-mail servers.

 

Electronic Evidence Gathering

Electronic evidence gathering can be critical to both the prosecution and defense of virtually any civil or criminal case. Outside of the courtroom, it can also be of great assistance to corporations and insurance companies in investigating fraud, harassment and discrimination, misappropriation of proprietary information, and workers compensation issues before the claim or complaint is filed.
 

What is electronic evidence?

Electronic data includes any record, file, source code, program, computer manufacturer specifications, and other imprint on a computer storage device. Because of the almost limitless application of computers in our society, electronic evidence takes many forms. It can encompass sensitive word processing documents, personnel records, customer lists, financial information; e-mail routed via the internet and local intranets, electronic scheduling systems, computer operation logs, and voice mail transcriptions, whether or not they are transferred to a printed page.

Examples:

  • E-mail related info
  • Word processing documents
  • Accounting Spreadsheets
  • Program Information, (MS-Money, Quicken, Oracle, etc.)

Other file formats, conversions, temporary, searching and printing files (databases, imaging, presentation etc…)

Did you know that – more often than not – cases of "deleted" evidence that is needed to make or break a case is still on the hard drive?

Retrieving it, however, requires skill and expertise in data recovery. Our experts can safely enter any microcomputer system, network, or data storage device to recover data and determine whether it has been tampered with, deleted, or damaged. Depending on your particular situation, our experts can search for specific data (such as phrases, files, numbers, or keywords), analyze and determine what different file dates may mean, or verify illegal use of proprietary information.

We can help recover data, deleted files and information that are critical to an organization even when it appears they are lost. Just because data cannot be seen does not mean that it is no longer available. We have the ability and the tools to target our search efforts, providing clients a cost-effective solution to such crises.


For more information about Secure20 services, please consult our FAQ page and download our Services Overview document in PDF format. You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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