Exploring Legal Digital Forensics

Legal Digital Forensics enables different departments in your organization to submit legal requests for discovery and processing of digital data of employees suspected of malicious activity or litigation.

Features

• Intake form to gather request background, custodial and non-custodial data sources with keywords and filter dates.
• Flagging of e-discovery data sources with instructions for data processing.
• Integrated privacy approval flow to get the required approvals before starting the investigation.
• Pre-defined standard digital forensic tasks using a template.
• Record and audit trail of all activities done in support of the investigation and litigation.

You can submit a digital forensics request for the following actions for custodial and non-custodial data on the specified data sources:

• Preserve: Option for preserving relevant digital information of custodial and non-custodial data and documenting the facts.
• Collect: Option for collecting digital information of custodial and non-custodial data that may be relevant to the investigation. Collection might involve activities such as imaging storage devices, or copying or printing of the digital information.
• Review: Option for an in-depth, systematic search of facts in the collected information related to the investigation.
• Present: Option for presenting the relevant information of custodial and non-custodial data in an appropriate format to stakeholders.

After the required privacy approvals for investigation, the digital forensics team member working on the digital forensic request can promote it to a legal matter. The legal matter for the digital forensics request can have phases based on the requested actions. Each phase can have tasks for each custodial or non-custodial data for a keyword, data source, and date range.