CONTENTENGINEER® : Data Recovery Services provide honest and expert advice on
protecting valuable digital assets; as well as offering managed incident response for recovery of
data and artefacts from the widest range of system, media and devices. The Services have developed
in response to the explosion in information held on an ever expanding range of media and devices.
The proliferation of both silicon and magnetic based storage components within business and
everyday products has resulted in the widest distribution of data. The ease of copying
data results in a dilution of copyright material, patents and other valuable intellectual property.
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The increase in statute, regulation and best practice heaped on organisations by
law makers, public bodies and industry watchdogs has resulted in organisation having to
carefully manage both the retention and deletion of data through its lifecycle.
Service Benefits
- Totally effective incident management procedures and process
- Protection of organisations intellectual property and corporate assets
- Minimisation of loss of business critical data from impacting on profits or brand
- Enabling of compliance with satute and regulation (and best practice)
- Rapid identification of potential risks to the organisation
Engagements
Clients engage the Group in data recovery projects that encompass prevention
and cure. The latter type of engagement, provides a managed incident response to assist
Clients in recovering data and artefacts from systems, media and devices. Whether the
loss of data was accidental, deliberate or as a result of software error or associated
physical failure; the Group can often recover either total files, or sufficient partial
elements of files to enable successful re-assembly.
But prevention is often better than cure, and the Group therefore assists Clients in
pro-actively addressing the need for effective protection of data with fully automated
solutions that enable the recovery of data in the event of a wide range of human or
technology or environment related errors. By adopting a "What if?" scenario approach,
the Group can assist a Client in identifying potential risks including:
- Physical location of datacentre(s), near to potential hazards
- Localised physical damage to racks or office based equipment
- Theft of portable devices laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, credit card terminals
- Theft of fixed devices including servers, desktops, networking equipment
- Environmental failure within the datacentre (flooding, gas leak, fire, electricity
failure, UPS failure, air conditioning failure, generator failure)
- Internal administrative and external hacking attacks
In identifying ALL known risks (and facilitating lists of others incomprehendable
but possible risks), the Group enables Clients to detail a [disaster] recovery plan and
select appropriate technologies to enable business continuity. In conjunction with
the Group's Technology Advisory Services solutions can
then be acquired that meet financial, operational (process/procedure) and recovery
needs in totality.
Recovery Paradigms
The Group has the appropriate software and specialised hardware technology that enable recovery of data
from the broadest range of system, media and devices. The GRID
provides an interesting list of locations of data in today's information age. In particular
the Group can attempt recover electronic data from embedded hard disk drives (3.5", 2.5", 1.8", 0.85"), floppy disk drives,
secure digital (SD), xD picture cards, memory sticks (including DUO and PRO), CD, DVD, multi-media
cards (MMC), USB memory sticks, compact flash devices including microdrives, smart media,
smart cards (depending on encryption), SIM cards, RFID tags and standard/2D barcodes.
PLEASE NOTE that the recovery of data depends entirely on securing the system, media or
device in a timely manner and ensuring that no further I/O writes are made to the device,
including "destructive" surface formatting. If the device is damaged such that it cannot
be fully accessed or controlled electronically, it may be necessary for the component
to be sent to a specialised clean room facility for repair of these elements prior to
attempting access on the magnetic or silicon material.
Data Recovery Guide
The Group has recognised that basic data recovery and also forensic evidence
collections/search are well defined processes and therefore has streamlined the process for
engaging Expert(s) in such matters. The Guide and an Order Form can be downloaded
from the resources section or obtained from the office. This form details all the
information required to commence such an engagement, ensuring a rapid return of valuable
digital assets to the Client in the majority of cases.
Related Services
The Group also undertakes ContentForensic™ Services
for criminal and civil matters including
litigation; plus associated
Expert Witness Services. If the recovery relates to legal matters
the engagement process can involve additional necessary forensic steps. For more information
about CONTENTENGINEER® : Data Recovery Services do not hesitate to
contact us.
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