What is Data Recovery and Computer Forensics?
Written on 11:43 AM by Right Click IT - Technology Services
Definition From Wikipedia in Italics
Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally.
Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard disk drives, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, RAID, and other electronics. Recovery may be required due to physical damage to the storage device or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from being mounted by the host operating system.
If you are missing information on your server or desktop, your hard drive crashed and you did not have a backup Right Click’s data recovery services can help you to get your data back quickly and efficiently. We have done a number of data recoveries saving thousands in lost time and productivity if the files had to be recreated.
Data recovery can also be the process of retrieving and securing deleted information from a storage media for forensic purposes or spying.
Do you think an employee or partner is doing something that may not be in accordance with company policies. Right Click is an expert in examining computers and ensuring that you get an answer that has been thoroughly researched and examined.
Right Click's Jim Harrington, is an Encase Certified Engineer, has testified in court and has tremendous experience in dealing with forensics jobs large or small.
Computer forensics is a branch of forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in computers and digital storage mediums. Computer forensics is also known as digital forensics.
The goal of computer forensics is to explain the current state of a digital artifact. The term digital artifact can include a computer system, a storage media (such as a hard disk or CD-ROM), an electronic document (e.g. an email message or JPEG image) or even a sequence of packets moving over a computer network. The explanation can be as straightforward as "what information is here?" and as detailed as "what is the sequence of events responsible for the present situation?"
The field of Computer Forensics also has sub branches within it such as Firewall Forensics, Database Forensics and Mobile Device Forensics.
There are many reasons to employ the techniques of computer forensics:
- In legal cases, computer forensic techniques are frequently used to analyze computer systems belonging to defendants (in criminal cases) or litigants (in civil cases).
- To recover data in the event of a hardware or software failure.
- To analyze a computer system after a break-in, for example, to determine how the attacker gained access and what the attacker did.
- To gather evidence against an employee that an organization wishes to terminate.
- To gain information about how computer systems work for the purpose of debugging, performance optimization, or reverse-engineering.
Special measures should be taken when conducting a forensic investigation if it is desired for the results to be used in a court of law. One of the most important measures is to assure that the evidence has been accurately collected and that there is a clear chain of custody from the scene of the crime to the investigator---and ultimately to the court.
Right Click has the field expertise to provide you with the right solution to your Data Recovery and Computer Forensics needs. Give us a call or email us to find out how we can help!
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