Data Collection
Reliable, consistent collection services, no matter the size,
location, or platform.
Data collection principles
Data collection services
Our digital forensics team partners with you in locating, preserving, and collecting the data you need as efficiently as possible, leveraging a defensible solution while focusing on saving time and money.
Remote and full-service onsite data collection
Full-service collection
Our in-house team performs collections either onsite or from our secure lab. This approach offers maximum certainty and legal defensibility, while minimizing the resource commitment needed from your IT teams.
Remote collection
This cost-effective alternative works especially well in a remote work environment with geographically dispersed custodians. A remote collection approach provides you with a flexible solution that minimizes work disruptions for custodians.
Directed self-collection
This cost-effective alternative works especially well in a remote work environment with geographically dispersed custodians. A remote collection approach provides you with a flexible solution that minimizes work disruptions for custodians.
Cloud collaboration platforms
Mobile device collection
Our team conducts mobile device collections for all brands and models of tablets and smartphones. We use licensed, industry-leading software solutions, and our team has significant experience with investigations and analysis involving mobile device forensic artifacts.
Unique and uncommon data sources
We regularly handle various types of “atypical” data, managed through our forensics lab processing workstations that run Windows, Mac, and numerous types of Linux installations. Some data sources examples include:
- Document management systems, SharePoint, several proprietary and commercially available wikis, archiving systems
- Cloud sources including Google Docs, Gmail, Box and Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
- Various chat sources such as Bloomberg and Skype