The facts

• Companies pay heftily when fraud is at work.

• The penalties for lack or inadequate electronic information retention policies in case of litigation can be devastating.

• 70% of companies have had sexually explicit sites accessed using their company network.

• Email, Instant Messaging, and the Internet have become focal points in many corporate litigation cases involving harassment and wrongful termination.

• Companies are vulnerable to lawsuits and to paying hefty penalties from liabilities arising from inadequate file retention policies, inappropriate email and internet usage and workplace privacy during, or in a potential litigation situation. Because of this many of them have now started to take proactive step to gather and retain electronic information, even before the possibility of litigation arises.

• While such practices are often used to support legal proceedings, they are also invaluable to corporations in internal investigations, such as in employee misconduct and theft of information matters.

• 27% of Fortune 500 organizations have defended themselves against claims of sexual harassment stemming from inappropriate email.

• The most vulnerable, however are medium to small companies who do not have detailed policies, internal auditors and extensive control systems to combat employee fraud.

	can help your company
	Establish and implement computer usage & electronic information retention policies to ensure electronic information is retained should it be required to produce in litigation proceedings.
	Conduct confidential audits of employee computer usage to safeguard against use of business computers for personal or work unrelated to company business.
	Uncover computer evidence for employee harassment, discrimination or relating to wrongful termination proceedings.
	Create forensic images and analyze employee hard drives for employee theft, embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, proprietary information & trade secrets, check internet histories, downloads, images, emails, instant messages and help you obtain admissible evidence for civil or criminal prosecution.
	Forensic image copies of all employee workstations immediately upon termination to secure possible relevant electronic information.
	Help identify areas of the computer system that may contain relevant electronic information that the company may be required to produce.
	Help develop proactive electronic information policies that could reduce the cost of meeting discovery requests in the event a company is involved in litigation.
	Recovery of deleted files, file slack, free space and swap files.
	Lost password recovery and cracking of locked files Discovery of hidden and deleted E-mail's, pictures, Internet usage and unauthorized software installed on a company server.
	While a majority of our examinations are performed upon computer media, we also recover data from other items such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), digital cameras, cell phones and pagers. We take the time to understand your needs. Not only do we identify and recover key information such as e-mails, documents, chat logs and Internet browsing history, we can identify the who, what, when and how behind it.
	We present our findings in a professional report with all evidence or lack thereof fully documented and validated. Our evidence will be forensically sound and in case of legal proceedings would withstand legal challenge.