Forensic Data Audit

Computer Forensics in Internal Company Investigations

For all businesses, big and small, a time will come when there will be a need for computer forensics, electronic discovery, or data recovery. Some of the areas of concern for a business in matters relating to computer forensics in the business environment include:

• Discover what's really going on at a point in time
• Find out about potential problems, hopefully before it's too late to fix them
• Evaluate business situations objectively
• Face up to the truth and make informed, if difficult decisions
• Implement corrective actions, changes and improvements where needed
• Do what they really wanted to do all along but didn't have the nerve to carry off (provided, that is, the auditors agree)
• Sleep more soundly, in the end

In today's competitive market industrial espionage is a fact of life. A company's trade secrets and data are its most valuable assets and must be protected or else the business could suffer significant competitive business losses. By applying audit reviews or security procedures and computer forensics audits a company will know better where all there trade secret data is located. Knowing where and who has access to your data better protects you from theft of trade secrets.

In I.Tech data forensics we can do the internal audit fo find out:

• Inadequate information security (e.g. missing or out of date antivirus controls)
• Inefficient use of corporate resources, or poor governance (e.g. spending large on unnecessary IT projects)
• Ineffective IT strategies, policies and practices (including a lack of policies etc.).
• IT-related frauds