Computer and Network Forensics and Expert Witness Services

Professional Analysis

Altius IT offers professionally planned and implemented incident response, forensic investigation, and forensics services. Ad-hoc investigations may cause more harm than good.  Even with a clearly defined incident response plan, many organizations don’t have sufficient time or knowledge to perform skilled analysis of electronic crime scenes. Your decision to prosecute may rely on the crime scene investigation, your evidence, and how it is handled.

Altius IT minimizes your risks by professionally collecting, examining, analyzing, and preserving your evidence.  Our managed forensics and expert witness services provide a formalized approach to the forensics process.

Examples of Forensics and Expert Witness Services

Litigation Issues

• Document Retrieval – access electronically deleted documents and make available to client

• E-mail – tracing and routing of electronic communications, recover deleted e-mail messages

• Employee termination – research and identify audit trails and available electronic evidence

• Policies – identify and document violations of computer-related policies and procedures

Legal and Attorney Assistance

• Plaintiff – pre-filing through trial

• Defendant – post filing through trial

• Analysis – issues and claims

• Alternatives – provide alternatives for each issue/claim

• Advantages – provide advantages and disadvantages for each alternative

• Scenarios - alternatives for worst-case scenarios for settlement and trial

• Reporting - provide expert opinion report for discovery and trial phase

• Expert opinions - render expert opinions at discovery and trial phase

Cyber Crimes

• Federal – assisted Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in cyber crime cases

• System Vulnerability Assessments – review systems and document vulnerabilities

Hackers

• Analysis – review and analysis of log files and trails to determine unauthorized activity

• Evidence – protect evidence and chain of custody for criminal investigations

• Protection - mitigation of damages

• Security – secure systems to protect against additional intrusions and damage

Expert Witness

We are experts and recognized leaders in our field with over 30 years of computer networking, security, and expert witness services (Expert witness CV).  As experts, we've been featured on MSNBC and in over 40 publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many others (see In the News for more information).