New Advanced Technology Gives Attorneys a Strategic Advantage Before Collection
This feature article by Albert Barsocchini, Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel for Guidance Software, discusses how new advances in technology have made the electronic discovery process non-linear and more flexible, faster and more cost efficient. 

Guidance Software Releases Version 4 of E-Discovery Solution
EnCase eDiscovery now includes early case assessment and first-pass review, delivered through a user-friendly web interface, creating an integrated offering that increases speed and reduces costs.

Guidance Ships Upgraded, Integrated E-Discovery Package
If you're thinking about adding e-discovery to your IT processes this year, this might be one to check out. 

Guidance Software Launches EnCase eDiscovery 4 
U.K. expert Chris Dale blogs that EnCase eDiscovery v4 brings eDiscovery phases “within the reach of an in-house team,” and recommends Guidance Software’s YouTube video, What Does Early Case Assessment Really Mean?

Collect Evidence With EnCase Portable
Reviewer test drives EnCase Portable and concludes, “EnCase Portable lets anyone with minimal technical knowledge collect electronic evidence, with a chain of custody, from computers in the field.”

The Convergence of eDiscovery, Internal Investigations and Compliance
Albert Barsocchini of Guidance Software discusses the trend toward consolidating practice areas and creating a single team that uses a single enterprise class technology to perform all types of corporate investigations.

GSN Names Winners in 2009 Homeland Security Awards
Guidance Software wins “Best Cyber Crime Investigative Software” award.

Don’t Fool Yourself: Gangs Blog and Tweet Like We Do
Andy Spruill of Guidance Software tells how evidence gleaned from digital devices helped convict a gang member of first-degree murder.

IQPC Brussels Focus: Patrick Burke and Guidance Software
Interview with Guidance Software AGC Patrick Burke on leadership at eDisclosure events in Europe and the UK.

Zombie Attack: Hackers Use Denial of Service Attacks to Take Down Web Sites and Drag Unsuspecting Companies into Their Crimes

Guidance Software’s Jim Butterworth and Patrick Zeller provide insights on the layers of risk that companies with an online presence face. "If your public-facing site is taken down, your business is going to stop," Zeller says.

Guidance Software Launches EnCase Certified Practitioner Program

Noted expert Chris Dale sounds in on why certification programs are important in the eDiscovery field.

Guidance Software Intros EnCase Cybersecurity Forensics Software

Article outlines how EnCase Cybersecurity can identify and analyze undiscovered threats, such as polymorphic or metamorphic malware, packed files and other advanced hacking techniques that evade traditional network- or host-based defenses.

 

The Growing Importance of Developing E-Discovery Processes That Operate Without Altering Metadata. Guidance Software AGC Albert Barsocchini dives deep into the issue of metadata preservation.

At the Frontline: Cybersecurity expert Jim Butterworth “In a regulated industry, you should get your general counsel; advise them that you’ve had this incident and start going through the process two fold…”

Asking the Right Questions “I read an excellent Q&A in Guidance Software's "Real eDiscovery" [in which] consultant Scott Carlson of Seyfarth Shaw clearly makes a lot of sense,” states Taneja Group’s Christine Taylor.

Compliance With Tomorrow’s New Regulations Starts With Data Management Today  “It's important to have risk assessment up front as part of the initial stages of designing your compliance initiatives," says Anthony Di Bello of Guidance Software.

 Practical ForensicsGuidance Software’s Jim Butterworth offer insights about digital forensics and the expanding scope of investigations that are impacting companies.

Digital Evidence EnCase helped a California police dept find a reputed gang leader guilty of murder, writes Guidance Software’s Andy Spruill in this cover story.

Dynamic Risks Demand Vigilance If your company has a computer network, you don’t just have security risk.  You have a dynamic risk. “Operating systems won’t always recognize someone has inserted new piece of malicious software…we’ve designed our applications to recognize things an operating system maybe won’t,” says Guidance Software in this Media Planet report.

Ease the Pain of E-Discovery Guidance Software customer, Verizon, shares views about creating e-Discovery teams that reduce the complexity and costs of managing, identifying, collecting and preserving electronically-stored information.

Voice of the Corporation: The 30(b)(6) Witness Strategies and insights regarding the 30(b)(6) witness’s role in E-discovery are offered in this feature article written by Albert Barsocchini, senior director and assistant general counsel for Guidance Software.

Coordinated Efforts Needed to Fight Cyberattacks  Jim Butterworth, Senior Director of Cybersecurity at Guidance Software, affirms, “Cybersecurity is not an appliance you buy. It is a process you put in place that involves everybody on a team. It has to be a forethought, not an afterthought.”

Advanced Algorithms Enlisted to Fight Cyberwars Guidance Software prepares to launch EnCase CyberSecurity, a new version of its digital forensic software, EnCase. The new software will fulfill a worldwide need for computer network defense, counterintelligence, and incident response-tasked government agencies.

Guidance Software Opens Up Exciting New Possibilities in Data Acquisition with Groundbreaking EnCase Portable Solution New data acquisition solution on a USB drive leverages the powerful search and acquisition capabilities of Guidance Software’s EnCase platform in a wide range of field applications.

KordaMentha picks EnCase from Guidance Software for Australian eDiscovery The software is Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery and the user is KordaMentha, the large (and fast-growing) corporate recovery and business restructuring company.

ANALYSIS-Fragmented eDiscovery Space to See Spike in Dealmaking eDiscovery software revenue -- generated from new licenses, upgrades, subscriptions and hosting -- will more than double to $1.94 billion in 2012 from 2008, estimates Gartner analyst Tom Eid.

EnCase Search Technology Validated by Federal Court in Contested Electronic Discovery Ruling U.S. District Court accepts key findings based upon the detailed search analysis performed with EnCase.

The Growing Importance of Metadata Preservation in eDiscovery As the developers of EnCase eDiscovery, whose function is the collection across corporate networks of discoverable documents and data, Guidance Software has an obvious interest in metadata.

Messaging Mess: IM, Facebook and Twitter Open New Areas of Discoverable ESI Online communications aren’t just a liability for in-house attorneys. Defense counsel are also using IM and social networking site records to defend against certain kinds of claims.

IT, Legal Work Better Together on eDiscovery and Compliance A Q&A with Patrick Zeller, vice president and deputy general counsel for Guidance Software, on assembling teams of legal and IT representatives to lower the cost and risk associated with eDiscovery and compliance requirements.

Understanding Data Location Is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention Only by proactively auditing an enterprise to locate sensitive data on PCs, laptops, or servers can the scope of a data loss prevention project be truly understood.

SEC Employs Guidance Software's EnCase Enterprise Guidance Software is extremely honored to have the SEC use EnCase Enterprise and EnCase Forensic solutions, given their role in maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets and protecting investors against those who violate securities laws.

Jim Butterworth | To Protect Networks, Know Thy Data   A Q&A with Jim Butterworth, director of incident response and federal services for Guidance Software, on taking a proactive approach to information assurance that begins with visibility and awareness.

Electronically Stored Information Makes Legal, IT Strange Bedfellows No matter how they choose to address it, most agree the overlap between legal and IT is a trend that will continue to grow.

eDiscovery: Navigating Through the Digital Maze eDiscovery systems can bring significant long-term savings to a firm. By purchasing EnCase, the software usually pays for itself within one or two cases depending on the size.

eDiscovery: Metadata Grows in Legal Significance The software is Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery and the user is KordaMentha, the large (and fast-growing) corporate recovery and business restructuring company.

Preventing eDiscovery Headaches If you have a good process and you have your ducks in a row, you have several advantages. You can control costs, produce data more efficiently and effectively, and keep control of the process.

File Not Found? Enter Computer Forensics The software is Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery and the user is KordaMentha, the large (and fast-growing) corporate recovery and business restructuring company.

Metadata Ruling Impacts eDiscovery As if the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure hadn't given companies enough to worry about, now a judge's ruling means that companies need to be ready to produce metadata in legal cases too.