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The Expanding Computer Forensics Market
With computer crime rising at an alarming rate, the demand for computer forensics experts is exploding. Once the strict domain of law enforcement, eForensics is now rapidly moving into corporate America. Corporate IT and information security professionals are anxious to protect themselves from employees spilling trade secrets, from a greedy security manager, or from employees inadvertantly misusing their desktops for personal and/or illegal activities.
Companies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars this year and the pace of spending will grow at an even faster pace over the foreseeable future. Corporations are finding out that to protect their organization with a real security program, they need to know how digital crimes are committed, how to gather the computer forensic evidence, and how to collaborate with law enforcement as the case evolves.
Traned specialists are needed to perform a proper computer forensic investigation designed to protect further damage to systems, company assets and reputation. Many companies are learning the hard way that strict computer forensic iprocesses must be adhered to if they expect the electronic evidence they submit to stand up in court. While there are many software solutions that copy digital information, most of these prove inadequate. Software capturing tools are generally quite slow - up to 6 times slower than hard-ware based capturing tools. Software solutions may also leave the door open for defense attorneys to shoot the case down, citing rare but real possibilities that the data may have been “doctored”. Hard drive data authentication is crucial. This is also true for defending wrongful termination cases.
Computer forensic hardware solutions, like the Logicube Quest or Forensic Talon, are used to quickly copy hard drives including deleted or encrypted files. Not only are these tools unquestionably accurate, they are five or six times faster than software solutions. This is especially important in cases where the copy of the suspect drive must be made in a clandestine fashion or when the computer forensic specialist has a brief period of time to capture the data.
Computer Forensics is now being used extensively in the following arenas:
- Insurance fraud discovery
- Medical fraud discovery
- Fighting child porn
- Tracking down Missing children
- Detecting and prosecuting money laundering
- Identification and prosecution of Identity theft
- Employee misuse of the internet
- Fighting Espionage
- Intelligence gathering
- Accounting fraud investigations
This growing market continues to demand the most sophisticated computer forensic data capturing systems. Logicube customers include the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, IRS, INS, NSA, DEA, ATF, Military Intelligence, NATO, Scotland Yard, Private Investigators, many other law enforcement agencies, and of course corporate security and IT departments.
For more information on computer forensics and why Logicube solutions outperform all other acquisition tools, please contact Logicube today.
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