If you are looking to make a case to defend yourself or your business from online hackers, digital fraud or scams, or if you need to protect yourself or prosecute a third party in relation to data theft or a breach of your intellectual property – you need to have evidence to support your claims.

While this sounds easy to do (just save a few key emails, right?) – in reality, digital data is fragile, and it can be destroyed at the push of a button. It can be very difficult and time consuming – sometimes impossible – to find the evidence you need when you need it.

The good news is that the Cyberlutions® digital forensics team can help you get your proof together before it’s gone, and preserve the legally admissible evidence you will need to defend yourself – or prosecute others – in a court of law.

How We Can Help

At Cyberlutions® we have years of experience in preserving crucial evidence for individuals, businesses, corporations, government departments and law enforcement.

Evidence preservation is not just about digital forensics (phones and computers etc) – it’s also about ensuring that online content from websites, dark web content, and social media posts is captured in a specific way so that you can use it as legally admissible proof. A PDF of a Facebook post, for example, can be challenged in court – and in some cases be thrown out (made invalid). So if your case has been built around that specific piece of evidence… its likely that your case will fall apart, and you’re left without the evidence you need to progress or defend your case.

Whether your business systems have been compromised and you need to recover key data and information, deleted files or emails, or if your intellectual property has been misappropriated and is being used without your permission, we’ll put together a timeline and assist you in pulling together – and preserving – all available evidence in a legally defensible way.

Together, we’ll build your case using the evidence we find through our investigations. Three of the key steps include:

• Sorting through all your information, and isolating or quarantining the digital/online artifacts that you can use legally in your case (which means that your evidence is not altered or called into question in any way). We can do this either by examining and sorting through information you provide us, or we can undertake a full investigation and use the information you provide as well as other evidence we uncover.
• Keeping a full record of your case for you, and helping you to keep track of important data and key bits of evidence. If it doesn’t look like it makes sense, and you don’t think the evidence is there to support your case – don’t worry! That’s our job, and we’ll connect the dots later. We’ll also write you a full report – if you want it – and ensure that Chain of Custody is maintained for any evidential process.
• Consulting with you about what happens next – after we’ve collated and recorded all available evidence, we’ll discuss with you what your options are, and what you what you’d like to do with the evidence. We can then assist you with any subsequent legal or law enforcement processes – if this is the action, you’d like to take next.