Cyber Forensics
VISTA InfoSec provides Computer Forensic and Electronic Discovery Services as well as Expert Witness Testimony.
If it can be found, we'll find it.
Most importantly, we'll find what's hiding on the computers and electronic media relevant to your case, and preserve, present and testify as expert witness in court to judge and jury, via declaration or affidavit - in the most useful form for you. Whether recovering deleted email, deleted documents, deleted Internet history files, or any other discoverable documents or data.
This encompasses a number of actual tasks including:
- Recovering files from damaged operating systems or hardware. Making forensic images or copies of originals, either at our offices or on site.
- Preserving the original disk drive or other digital media in its pristine condition.
- Recovering data from systems on which there's been an attempt to: Sabotage, hide, delete, overwrite or steal information, including:
- Emails - deleted, encrypted or in other conditions
- Recovering deleted email from Outlook PST and OST files
- Databases, including proprietary customer information
- Documents, even those erased, sometimes shredded, or overwritten
- Keyword searches to find otherwise unrecoverable data
- Extract and analyze metadata ti show previous authors, revisions and other information embedded in documents
- Produce gallery of all or a select set of images found on the media
- Manual carving of otherwise inaccessible data
- History files and entries, including Internet history, or data copied from networks (network forensics) or digital media such as USB thumb drives, flash drives, memory stick
- Analysis of URL or web addresses manually typed by the user
- All email addresses and users
- Timeline rebuilding - chronological reconstruction of events on the device
- Produce and analyze instant message and other log files
- All images, including pornography, or images that have been hidden via steganography or encryption
- Spyware, Trojan and other malware analysis
- Log files of instant message and chat sessions
- Analysis of specific users' activities including login dates and times
- Password cracking
- Analysis to show all software ever installed on the computer
- Analysis to show all external devices attached to the computer
- Manual rebuilding of MIME-type or other email attachments
- Revealing damage performed on the injured party's computer and files.
- Conversely, showing the likely innocence of defendant's data.
- Revealing the validity of a client's claim to his or her own attorney.
- Producing data which is readable by the client.
- Advising the client as to the best means of interpreting data.
- Explaining clearly, without technical jargon, or doublespeak, what the findings mean.
- Giving expert testimony in deposition and trial.
- Producing declarations, affidavits and other reports