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Forensic Accounting and Financial Investigation Services
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Computer Forensic Services
Forensic Computer Science deals with the identification, preservation and
extraction of magnetically encoded evidence from computer storage media and the
documentation of the findings using legally accepted methods and procedures. It
essentially relies upon the inherent security weaknesses of computer operating
systems to identify and extract data that is usually unknown to the computer
user. Other popular and descriptive names include: Electronic Document
Discovery, Computer Risk Assessment and Computer Forensics. All of the following
pertain:
- Often the computer user that created the evidence
does not know the evidence exists. Many times ‘electronic finger prints’
are left in bizarre and unexpected areas.
- Potential computer evidence (data) is many times
password protected and/or encrypted. It can also be compressed or encoded.
- Frequently the computer evidence (data) is in the form
of ‘data fragments’ that may include binary data, which potentially precludes
the viewing or printing of the data without the use of special software and/or
filtering methods.
In the Law Enforcement World, forensic tools/techniques
are used to:
- Identify and document evidence of criminal violations
- Discover ‘secrets’ for intelligence gathering purposes
- Defeat the ‘crooks’ computer security
- Enhance the law enforcement agency’s computer security
- Tie floppy diskettes to specific desktop computers
and
notebooks computers
- Identify Internet E-mail and browsing patterns
tied to
criminal activity
- Identify criminal associates and conspirators
In the Corporate and Government World, forensic
tools/techniques are used to:
- Identify computer security weaknesses
- Identify internal audit issues regarding violations
of
corporate policy
- Discover evidence in civil and criminal cases
- Identify the source of trade secrets thefts and abuses
- Enhance corporate and government computer security
- Tie floppy diskettes to desktop and notebook computers
- Identify Internet corporate and account abuses
For more information on Computer Forensic Services,
please contact
Jonathan Bobb. |
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