EFS e-Forensic Services has been offering a little-known option with great success, to reduce the cost of data collection and preservation. A flexible remote collection process that can be completed by a computer novice in a secure and defensible manner, lowering the cost of preserving data.
Continue reading “Remote Media Collections”eDiscovery – Reviewing Your Client’s Data and Containing Costs
It seems Computer Forensics and e-Discovery have become synonymous with expensive. It’s becoming a more frequent occurrence where I receive a call from a law firm, who are trying to contain costs for their client and are asking what it would costs to clone the drive or export the data or print the documents so the firm or client can review the data. They don’t want the added expense of a third party filtering/reviewing data and believe they can complete the task with less cost and reasonably good results.
Continue reading “eDiscovery – Reviewing Your Client’s Data and Containing Costs”Limitations of the Keyword Search
A number of criminal and civil cases we have been involved in have relied upon the use of keywords to locate relevant nuggets of data from large data sets. Keyword searching involves selecting a set of words chosen for their potential in appearing in relevant documents and using them to search a data set.
Continue reading “Limitations of the Keyword Search”Separation of Key Personnel
Managing human resources is a fact of life for any enterprise. An aspect of human resource management that needs to be handled with utmost care is the separation of an employee from the enterprise. While in most cases these events are handled routinely there is always the exception which requires time, expense and often lawyers to resolve. No small part of this process is managing the employees electronic footprint in the organization, which is what I will focus on today.
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The old methods of data preservation relied upon paper documents and the saving of these documents for use in future proceedings. Paper documents are easy to save, simply set them aside in boxes and produce them when and as required. Paper has nothing hidden, what you see is what you get.
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