Computer Forensics

Computer Forensic Services

Evidence needed from backup tapes, hard disks or other storage media? Evidential data inaccessible because of hard disk or backup tape failure? Email to extract from complex multiplexed backups or large archive of tapes?

Altirium’s computer forensic services can give you access to the evidential data that you need, and at the time you need it.

Computer Forensic Services

Computer Forensics

Computer Forensics involves the examination of data from any form of data storage, though predominantly hard disk drives, backup tapes and removable media devices, using methods that are reliable and allow the data collected to form part of civil or criminal investigations and be used as evidence

Forensic Tape Processing

Backup tapes provide an invaluable "snap-shot" of a data from a range of different times. On-line data is transient and open to manipulation, so email and other documents may have been removed before any attempt to perform a forensic examination of any systems could be made. Often attempts to hide incriminating evidence are made in panic, driven by a realisation that detection is imminent, but by then the data is already stored across several months of tape backups and can still be found by a forensic tape examination.

Tape Investigation Services

As regulatory demands increase upon businesses the need to examine data to determine whether there is any thing amiss within a business increases. Having hard disk drive based systems imaged for examination will cause unrest within an organisation and could cause unwarranted disruption. A forensic tape examination can work using the tape archive with little or no impact upon an organisation, the tapes may even be housed off-site and so no-one need know that the forensic examination is being undertaken.

Forensic Data Recovery

Attempts to prevent access to data for forensic examination can range from deletion of files, through the re-formatting of media and erasure of tapes, even the physical damage of disks and tapes. Altirium's data recovery services can be used to recover and secure data for forensic inspection even when data appears to have gone forever.