Providing remote digital forensics for forensic accountants. You investigate financial crimes, and we provide defensible remote digital forensic collections.
Enhance Your Investigations With The Power of Forensic Remote Collections
We provide eDiscovery, forensic imaging of digital devices, and counter surveillance services to law firms and Forensic Accountants throughout the United States. As Evidence Lawyers and Computer Forensic Experts, we make it easy to find digital evidence in your investigations.
How Can eDiscovery Help You as a Forensic Accountant?
Financial records are increasingly digital, and even in cases where paper trails exist, there’s likely to be relevant digital evidence on computers, phones, and other devices. We offer a comprehensive range of e-discovery and forensic data collection services. Our defensible collections can recover your evidence from several familiar sources. Here are just a few examples:
- Cell Phones
- Computers
- Tablets
- Email Accounts
- Text Messages
- Photos
- Financial Files
- Internet History & Bookmarks
What Metadata Should a Forensic Accountant Review?
Digital forensics provides valuable app and system metadata. For example, as a forensic accountant you might discover:
- When was QuickBooks last opened?
- When was a financial statement created? Modified? Last Accessed?
- What is the deletion date of the Profit Loss Statement?
Recovering Deleted Data in Your Financial Investigation
When an item is deleted from a phone, it is often recoverable for some time. When you delete a file, the space it occupied is marked as “free” for future use. The data is still there, but the space it occupied is now considered available and is subject to being overwritten by new data.
We help forensic accountants ensure they have all possible data for their investigations!
Whether deleted data is recoverable is a function of a variety of factors. These include:
- Time Since Deletion. The more time passed since the data was deleted, the more likely it became overwritten.
- Storage Management Systems. Phones or other devices use a storage management system that aims to optimize space. Some storage management systems are more aggressive than others at overwriting deleted files with new data.
- Data Type. The type of data (e.g., text message vs. photos) impacts recoverability because they are stored differently. For example, text messages may be easier to recover than multimedia files.
- Device Use. Continued device use generates new data and increases the chances of overwriting previously deleted data.
- Space Available on the Phone. When there is little free space on a phone or computer, it is more likely that deleted data will become overwritten quickly.