Information Systems Misuse Investigations

eForensics examines enterprise information systems to analyze security or privacy violations in relation to acceptable use policies. We determine the current level of risk or misuse and recommend actions to reduce liability, upgrade corporate practices, document infringements, or other corrective measures.

The risk of information system misuse is increasing for all organizations. It is common for people to use office resources and computers to conduct personal or other non-business-related transactions. Employee misuse of company resources could include civil misuse or criminal activity, breach of confidential, privileged information, and acceptable use policies, not to mention the loss of productivity this activity triggers.

In engaging eForensics, a client would normally expect the following process:

• Through highly automated software and hardware tools, eForensics patches into the network to determine if inappropriate or suspicious activity is occurring.
• We examine compliance with acceptable use policies, the exchange or possession of any known Federal contraband material and the inappropriate distribution of corporate intellectual property.
• Once certain liabilities have been exposed, we perform further investigations of the problem areas, including more specific examinations of particular systems.
• An overall report is then prepared and presented to the client, along with recommended actions and next steps.

This is an invaluable service for clients wishing to practically address the liability that problem employees represent. Because the process is highly automated, it is an extremely cost-effective preventive measure to initiate . . . yet the results can save organizations millions of dollars in liability, productivity and protection of company assets.

The eForensics difference . . .

Experience and automation are the distinguishing features of our information misuse investigations.

Our team is comprised of some of the best network experts in the business, with expert certification in virtually every major hardware and software system available. Expert backgrounds in network design, intellectual property, employment law litigation and criminal psychology allow us to quickly discover the most common problems and risks. We know criminal behavior . . . how it is likely to act and where it is likely to hide information. This helps us anticipate where systems might be exposed and susceptible to misuse.

This kind of experience combined with our state-of-the-art automated tool set provides first-class assessment and recommendations quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.