Services

Burgess Computer Forensics provides Computer Forensic and Electronic Discovery Services as well as Expert Witness Testimony.

This encompasses a number of actual tasks including:

Recovering files from damaged operating systems or hardware.
Making forensic images or copies of originals, either at our offices or on site.
Preserving the original disk drive or other digital media in its pristine condition.

Recovering data from systems on which attempts to sabotage, hide, delete, overwrite or steal information have occurred including the following:

• Emails (including Outlook PST and OST files) - deleted, encrypted or in other conditions
• Databases, including proprietary customer information
• Documents, even those erased, sometimes shredded, or overwritten
• Keyword searches to find otherwise unrecoverable data
• Extract and analyze metadata ti show previous authors, revisions and other information embedded in documents
• Produce gallery of all or a select set of images found on the media
• Manual carving of otherwise inaccessible data
• History files and entries, including Internet history, or data copied from networks (network forensics) or digital media such as USB thumb drives, flash drives, memory stick
• Analysis of URL or web addresses manually typed by the user
• All email addresses and users
• Timeline rebuilding - chronological reconstruction of events on the device
• Produce and analyze instant message and other log files
• All images, including pornography, or images that have been hidden via steganography or encryption
• Spyware, Trojan and other malware analysis
• Log files of instant message and chat sessions
• Analysis of specific users’ activities including login dates and times
• Password cracking
• Analysis showing all software ever installed on the computer
• Analysis showing all external devices attached to the computer
• Manual rebuilding of MIME-type or other email attachments

Revealing damage performed on the injured party's computer and files.
Conversely, showing the likely innocence of defendant's data.
Revealing the validity of a client's claim to his or her own attorney.
Producing data which is readable by the client.
Advising the client as to the best means of interpreting data.
Explaining findings clearly, without technical jargon or doublespeak.
Giving expert testimony in deposition and trial.
Producing declarations, affidavits and other reports

Devices supported include:

Desktop and laptop computers • File servers • Print servers
Mail and Exchange Servers
Hand-held devices including:
iPhone • BlackBerry • Treo • other smart phones • Palm Pilots • Sharp
Nearly all digital media including:
USB and FireWire drives • USB drives • Thumb drives • Flash drives •
Nearly all removable and archival storage media including Zip • Jaz • SparQ
SyJet • Magneto-optical • WORM • CD • DVD • Floppy diskettes
Archival and backup tapes media including DLT • AIT • QIC-80 and more

Operating Systems supported include:

Windows 7 • Vista • XP • Server • Exchange Server • 2000 • NT
Millenium Edition (Me) • 98⁄95 • 3.11 and earlier
Apple Macintosh MacOSX • MacOS 4.x-9.x
DOS 2.x-6.x • DRDOS • DOS 7
IBM OS/2 • Warp • Apple II • Lisa Office System • ProDOS
Novell Netware 2.x-5.x
Linux and UNIX, network OSes, and other proprietary Oses

Your original media will remain in its pristine condition while we make copies on which to perform our work.

All work is kept confidential as a matter of course. Chain of custody and nondisclosures are available.

 

 

 
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