Today’s Facility Design for Tomorrow’s Cyber Crime

If you are in search for what facility design criteria are specific to cyber science and other general design considerations for a forensic facility that includes a cyber crime lab, please read on.

By Ken Mohr and Lou Hartman, PE

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One-Third of Companies Still Have No Policy on Legal Holds for Discovery

Thirty percent of attorneys and executives polled by Deloitte said their companies have no formal policies and procedures in place regarding legal holds, the process by which companies preserve evidence subject to discovery for lawsuits and other legal and regulatory matters.

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Considering Third Generation eDiscovery?

New Orange Paper by Orange Legal Technologies outlines "complete offering" and "generational model" approaches to comparing and contrasting e-discovery offerings.

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First assistant secretary for cybersecurity steps down

Greg Garcia stepped down Dec. 5 to return to his career in the private sector, promising to stay focused on the mission of raising awareness and improving the security of the nation’s digital infrastructure.

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Journal Articles Available for Free

“Contagious errors: Understanding and avoiding issues with imaging drives containing faulty sectors” and “Legal Commentary: Why computer forensic professionals shouldn't be required to have private investigator licenses” are now available online.

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Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans

A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings.

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Tips on Storage Architecture for E-Discovery

E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands.

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IBM Introduces Cybercrime Security Services

The company is moving into the identity and access management space because of a surge in security incidents among its corporate clients.

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Stratify Introduces First eDiscovery Disaster Recovery

Infrastructure and protocols minimize client risk by safeguarding data with aggressive e-Discovery recovery objectives.

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C2C Releases Upgrade of Archive One

The latest version of its email management platform, includes improvements and new features for message search and electronic discovery on Exchange servers, and simplifies meeting regulatory requirements.

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Is Tape Back Up Dead?

When a major data loss occurs [companies] go to restore and find out that the tapes did not back up the data required or that they are damaged and the data is lost. The only avenue after a situation like this is data forensics which is a costly exercise.

By Dan Ballard

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Why the Global Financial Crisis is Sparking a Cybercrime

Companies busy slashing IT budgets and reducing their technical workforces could unwittingly be contributing to the global cybercrime epidemic.

By Ian Grayson

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Keeping Evidence Safe for Litigation

You have an incident. You have collected hard drives, USB drives, thumb drives, and PDAs. You made bit for bit images of all of them. Now, what do you do with the originals to ensure chain of custody?

By J. Michael Butler'

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Will California Finally Have An E-Discovery Law?

Earlier this year, both houses of the legislature approved AB 926, which would have added provisions to California's Code of Civil Procedure addressing this issue. Unfortunately, Governor Ahnald, in a somewhat justifiable snit over the failure of the legislature to enact a budget, went on a bill-vetoing rampage, and this one, along with hundreds of others, went out to the Capitol dumpster.

By Bruce Nye

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