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and Proactive Protection for your organisation against: |
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Intellectual Property Theft |
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Unfounded Accusations |
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Employee Theft |
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Sabotage |
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Computer Misuse |
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Regulatory Non-Compliance |
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Liability of Directors and Management |
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| What are
the risks to your organisation from Intellectual Property
theft? Employee sabotage? Unfounded accusations? Accounting
fraud? Computer misuse for personal gain? |
Historically, computer forensics
experts and processes are employed after the fact –
when suspicious activity has already been found and
the requirement is the discovery and documentation of
an electronic evidence trail.
Proactive vs. Reactive
These same techniques and expertise can be employed
in new ways to help organisations reduce illegal activities,
comply with new regulatory imperatives and position
themselves to proactively defend themselves in the face
of accusations from shareholders and regulatory agencies.
Data Recovery UK Limited’s suite of Advanced
Computer Forensics techniques, FailSafe™, involves
proactively applying them in a systematic, well-planned
process BEFORE discovery of suspicious activity of an
unethical or illegal nature.
The FailSafe™ service captures a “forensically
correct” snapshot of key data and computer usage
by predetermined criteria (employee, department, timing
and the occurrence of a key event, such as the resignation
or dismissal of an employee or an acquisition or merger),
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Deter employees from
engaging in unethical or illegal activity, similar
to the psychology of random drug testing. |
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Create contemporaneous, accurate
and continuous records that can be accessed should
malfeasance be discovered after the fact. |
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Prevent the ageing, fragmentation
or loss of electronic evidence of misuse, which
may go undiscovered for months or years. |
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Provide monitoring and analysis of
activity by key employees in highly-sensitive areas
of the company, such as finance, research and development,
HR or purchasing. |
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Retain documented potential evidence,
acceptable in a court of law, as defence against
future accusations or lawsuits or to limit the liability
to the level of the individual perpetrator rather
than to the organisation as a whole. |
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FailSafe™ techniques
can be applied to any form of electronic data storage
device: hard drives, floppy drives and optical drives
in desktops and laptops, RAID configurations on the
organisation’s servers, data tapes, flash memory,
even the memory in PDAs.
Is It Worth It?
Consider the following: it is estimated that each year,
more than £80 billion is lost in the UK alone
through employee theft, fraud and sabotage. This is
the direct cost only. Add to it billions more in investigation
and litigation costs, lost productivity, the future
value of Intellectual Property lost…the list goes
on as
do the billions of pounds lost. Now, add the cost of
the publicity surrounding employee malfeasance: Loss
of reputation, employee morale, a depressed stock price.
Finally, the new regulatory and litigation environment
we are now entering places a new, heightened level of
personal responsibility and liability on the backs of
corporate executives and directors for the activities
of their employees and organisations. How many are willing
to take that risk?
What About System Back-Up
Tapes? |
| One question many companies
ask is why they cannot use the data from back-ups for
the same purpose? There are several reasons why this typically
is not a good idea. |
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Back-ups do not capture
deleted files or data in unallocated space –
exactly where evidence may be found if any attempt
has been made to delete it! |
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Back-up procedures and files are
notoriously unreliable. More than 50% of our data
loss clients have attempted to load back-up files
to no avail. |
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Back up data is a repetitive process
and files are rarely saved for any length of time. |
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Backing up data is an “internal”
process not subject to strict chain-of-custody procedures
and likely to be successfully challenged in court. |
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Most organisations do not back-up
desk-top or laptops which is where illegal activity
normally takes place. |
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| The use of an independent Computer
Forensics firm is critical to protect the integrity of
the process and potential evidence. |
| Plan Carefully |
| An organisation contemplating
this new and valuable approach should plan very carefully
and involve outside counsel to ensure that other regulatory
and statutory requirements are met such as employment,
data protection and privacy laws. Data Recovery UK specialises
in working with our FailSafe™ customers to understand
each client’s needs and to provide a comprehensive
plan of proactive computer forensics to protect your organisation
and people. |
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0800 783 9350 |
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