Computer Forensics

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- What Web sites have been visited

- What files have been downloaded

- When files were last accessed

- Of attempts to conceal or destroy evidence

- Of attempts to fabricate evidence

- That the electronic copy of a document can contain text that was removed from the final printed version

- That some fax machines can contain exact duplicates of the last several hundred pages received

- That faxes sent or received via computer may remain on the computer indefinitely

- That email is rapidly becoming the communications medium of choice for businesses

- That people tend to write things in email that they would never consider writing in a memorandum or letter

- That email has been used successfully in criminal cases as well as in civil litigation

- That email is often backed up on tapes that are generally kept for months or years

- That many people keep their financial records, including investments, on computers [3]

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COMPUTER FORENSICS SERVICES

No matter how careful they are, when people try to steal electronic information (all from the customer database blueprints), they leave traces of their activities. Similarly, when people try to destroy incriminating evidence on a computer (harassment memo to steal technology), they left behind an important clue. In both cases, these traces could prove conclusive evidence, succeeded in winning the lawsuit. Therefore, the computer is quickly becoming a reliable statistical evidence and basic forms of evidence, it should not be overlooked. Computer forensics professional not open on your computer, make a directory list and search files. Your professional should be able to successfully perform forensics and there is reason to believe that, with the skills and expertise of your situation, the complexity of the evidence recovery process. For example, they should be able to perform the following services:

- Data seizure

- Data duplication and preservation

- Data recovery

- Document Searches

Data Seizure

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow the parties or their representatives to inspect and copy the specified file or data compilation evidence may contain. Your computer forensics experts, the following federal guidelines, should serve as the representatives, with their knowledge of data storage technology to trace evidence. Your expert should be able to check in process equipment to help officials.

Data Duplication and Preservation

When the data from the other party must seize the two concerns must be addressed: data not be changed in any way, and seized can not put an undue burden on the respondent. Your computer forensics experts should recognize these issues through an exact copy of the data required. Because the copy speed, the responder will quickly resume their normal business functions, and because your expert working for replicated data, integrity of the original data is maintained.

Data Recovery

The use of special tools, a computer forensics expert should be able to safely recover and analyze evidence otherwise inaccessible. The ability to recover lost evidence by expert’s in-depth understanding of storage technologies as possible. For example, when a user deletes an email, mark the message can still exist on the storage device. Although the news is not accessible to users, your expert should be able to recover it, and find relevant evidence. See Chapter 5, "Data Recovery", for more information.

Document Searches

Your computer forensics expert should be able in a few seconds rather than hours searching more than 200,000 electronic documents. Speed and efficiency of these searches, so that the discovery process simpler and less intrusive to the parties concerned.

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