Cyber Security Whitpapers
Auditing for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with a Comprehensive Data Audit and Computer Forensics Solution
  • The Office of Management and Budget requires federal agencies implement policies and technology to address PII. Best practices for this are embodied by a comprehensive data audit and completer forensics solution. This whitepaper will demonstrate how.

Avoiding PCI non-compliance
  • Many companies are still struggling to demonstrate compliance with PCI DSS. With costs spiralling out of control, compliance spending among retail merchants has increased fivefold over the last 18 months, with 8% of retailers being fined, and another 22% being threatened with fines. Is your company one of them? What steps can you take to make PCI work for you?

     

Ensuring FISMA Compliance: Integrating Forensics and Incident Response as Mandated by NIST SP 800-86
  • The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 mandates that federal agencies must establish incident response capabilities (44 U.S.C. §3544 (b)(7).

Utilizing Entropy to Identify Undetected Malware-Whitepaper
What is the OMB Mandate for PII
  •  Personally-identifiable information (PII) is information that can be used to trace an individual’s identity, such as a name, social security number, or biometric record.

eDiscovery Whitepapers
Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Australian Corporations
  • Amendments to the Federal Court of Australia's Practice Note 17 are driving companies to assess and plan their discovery practice to become litigation ready.

Defending Your eRecords Retention Policies
  • This paper addresses the failure to consistently enforce their eRecords retention policies, execute timely and effective litigation preservation efforts and to document the execution of and the parameters for the actual purging or preservation of ESI.

eDiscovery Best Practices for the Enterprise EnCase® eDiscovery Simplifies ESI Processing
  • Outside of attorney review, data processing of electronically stored information (ESI) is the most costly component of the eDiscovery process. In fact, more than $1 billion is spent annually on data processing alone.

eDiscovery Collection Best Practices for the Enterprise
  • The vast majority of risk associated with electronic discovery centers around the effectiveness of a litigant’s preservation and collection efforts.

eDiscovery Collection Best Practices for the Public Sector
  • To help government entities understand how to mitigate the potentially staggering risks and costs of eDiscovery collection and preservation, this paper will present a legal overview of current best practices for collecting and preserving ESI.

Effective and Cost-Efficient Enterprise eDiscovery
  • This paper examines the current electronic evidence discovery landscape and the challenges companies face in dealing with a broken eDiscovery process.

EnCase® eDiscovery for Major Corporations in UK Courts 2009
  • The Place for EnCase® eDiscovery in Electronic Disclosure for Major Corporations in UK Courts

Obtaining German Works Council Approval to Collect Employee E-Mail and Electronic Documents
  • Companies that seek to collect German employee E-mails and electronic documents all confront the same hurdle: obtaining permission from their company’s works council. This white paper will address several questions that arise in dealing with German works councils.

Systemizing eDiscovery for Compliance with the New Federal Rules
  • In perhaps the most important development in civil litigation in the past twenty years, the Federal Civil Rules of Civil Procedure are amended effective December 1, 2006 to specifically address the unique challenges of electronic discovery (The eDiscovery Rules).

UK e-Disclosure Turning Point: The Corporate Focus on Cost-Effective Collection and Processing of E-Mail and Electronic Documents for Litigation and Regulatory Purposes
  • Chris Dale of the e-Disclosure Information Project

    With ever expanding pressures from regulatory bodies UK Companies are forced to pay more attention to the manner in which they collect e-mail and electronic documents for litigation.

    Organisations are becoming increasingly aware that it is their responsibility to minimise the start-up cost of instructing their lawyers and launching or defending proceedings.  Read this informative WP and discover the turning point which has organisations focusing on cost-effective collection and processing of e-mail and electronic documents for litigation and regulatory purposes.

Internal Investigations
Basel Committee Incident Response Standards
  • This paper discusses the report that sets 14 risk management principles for electronic banking.

Internal Computer Investigations as a Critical Control Activity Under Sarbanes-Oxley
  • This paper discusses internal computer investigations as a critical control activity under Sarbanes-Oxley.

Data Protection Whitepapers
Enhancing Compliance with UK and EU Data Protection Laws when Collecting Employees E-mail and Electronic Documents
  • This paper addresses the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive and the UK Data Protection Act 1998 pertinent to the investigation, review, and/or collection of employees’ personal data.

Seeking a Balance in the Discovery Equation
  • Co-written by Denise Backhouse, Morgan Lewis & Patrick Burke, Guidance Software

    Companies operating in the global economy routinely generate, move and store data around the world. When litigation arises in the UK or US that implicate data residing in Europe, basic actions required to satisfy British and American disclosure or discovery obligations may put the company in violation of European laws that recognise and protect individual privacy rights in employee workplace data.  Discover the recent developments in the broad context of the EU Directive.  This paper analyses special precautions that a party should consider implementing under the still-emerging protocols, and looks for potential ways forward.

Tackling the Causes of Data Leakage and Data Loss
  • This paper highlights many legal requirements that organisations need to adopt to ensure they are complying with regulations set out by their governing bodies.

Understanding Data Location is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention
Forensic WhitePapers
Case Study: EnCase Forensic
  • The Neuquen Branch of the Argentina Justice System Leads the Way in Computer Forensics.

FastBloc Validation
  • Third-party validation of FastBloc forensic integrity by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.

Grant Funding for Computer Forensics Software and Training
  • This paper provides information regarding available grants for computer forensic software and training purchases.

Validation Testing of EnCase Restore Process in Windows
  • This white paper explores the technology and process to ensure that evidence files obtained through EnCase® software are unaltered after imaging a target computer.

Other Publications
EnCase Legal Journal
  • Reviews the latest legal standings and issues related to forensics.

Real eDiscovery Magazine (Fall 2008)
  • The latest developments, challenges and achievements in electronic discovery.

Real eDiscovery Magazine (Fall 2009)
  •  The latest developments, challenges and achievements in electronic discovery.

Real eDiscovery Magazine (Spring 2009)
Real eDiscovery Magazine (Winter 2009)
Real eDiscovery Magazine (Winter 2010)
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