Forensic computer investigations in Employment Cases

Many times we are asked if we can help employers with cases of computer misuse or IP Theft. 
Whether you are an employer or a civil litigation solicitor, we can help. 

Frequent use of computers by employees can lead to disputes, whether you have a disgruntled employee or an employee that is leaving to go to a competitor, you need to know your data is safe. 
3Ef can look for signs of misuse or data theft and misuse by checking the following:

• Browsing history
• Use of file sharing systems
• Creation times and dates of documents
• Last accessed times and dates
• Recovery of deleted documents and e-mails
• Edited versions of documents
• Checking log entries
• User profiles
• Databases
• Financial information
• Trade secrets
• Competitor analysis information
• Signs of usage of personal e-mail to transfer data

In the first instance, we can pull off the directories to see what information is there and let you direct further investigation, this keeps costs down considerably. 
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We believe there should be a staged approach to most investigation to keeps costs down and ensure we are only targeting the relevant information. 
Once the forensic computer investigation is complete, we will put our findings in to a report suitable for use in court.