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and build cases to fight fraud and other
crimes endemic to government and the
public sector.
What’s needed are tools to locate and
analyse data often unavailable through
conventional processes, allowing
examiners and investigators to collect key
evidence quickly and with confidence.
Law firms want to better serve their
clients by simplifying their e-discovery
processes and reducing costs. This
can be a tough challenge with today’s
caseloads where millions of documents
and terabytes of data are commonplace.
To make e-discovery more efficient,
you need access to integrated tools
for processing, review and case
organisation. And you need a real-
time review platform that allows secure
collaboration, regardless of where any
member of the litigation team is located.
dispersed investigatory teams and real-
time collaboration. And as with large
enterprises, service providers need
to balance evidence collection and
privacy rights.
Surely what’s needed are new
solutions – more powerful, flexible
forensic technologies that can
handle big, diverse data loads faster
than existing platforms. But it’s not
just about more processing power.
Investigators in any industry or sector
need better indexing, higher scalability
and nimbler collection capabilities.
Just as important, today’s solutions
must accommodate the changing
nature of investigations and empower
diversifying teams. More than anything,
today’s solutions need to be smarter.
The changing nature of
investigations – breaches,
regulations and IoT
Multinational service providers,
consultants and accounting
organisations have unique business
challenges that cut across the corporate
and legal world. Like law firms, service
providers need to be able to carry out
complex e-discovery projects. Executives are becoming more focused
on data security in light of high-profile
data breaches that have tarnished
brands such as Facebook, Google,
Marriott, British Airways and dozens
of other tech and consumer brands in
recent years.
They’re also expected to provide expert
support for international compliance
efforts. As such, there’s an urgent
need for tools that can support globally Additionally, data privacy legislation
such as the EU’s GDPR and state-
level regulations in the US are driving
greater awareness of security issues and
leading to more investigation activity.
Increasingly, C-level executives want
reassurance from their cybersecurity
teams that their data is secure and the
company is compliant.
Forensics
professionals are
confronting much
larger data loads,
with new, complex
information types
tapped from a
growing diversity of
sources.
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The way forward – cross-
team collaboration
There’s growing consensus that
effective collaboration is a key to
success when managing investigations.
No longer can teams work in
metaphorical silos as the data that must
be collected expands to different teams
and devices. This holds true for forensic
investigations whether at the corporate
level or in the public sector.
At the same time, with HR, compliance
and legal playing a more active role in
data preservation, as well as collection
and analysis as part of investigations,
organisations need to facilitate better
collaboration between teams.
The need is especially acute when
outside counsel, law firms or service
providers are brought into an
investigation. Given these realities,
decision-makers are increasingly
demanding integrated tools that enable
and foster that collaboration without
requiring unnecessary data movement,
longer timeframes or higher costs.
Technologies optimised to
meet emerging challenges
To conduct successful investigations in
today’s challenging environment, you
need an end-to-end solution that will
enable investigators to find relevant
evidence as quickly as possible.
What to look for in a
core platform:
• Speed and stability: Distributed
processing and the ability to
leverage multi-thread/multi-core
computers to realise full potential of
hardware resources.
• Up-front indexing for more efficient
filtering and searching: The
difference is that whether you’re
investigating or performing document
review, you have a shared index file,
eliminating the need to recreate or
duplicate files.
• Built on a single unified database:
Single data store ensures that your
data doesn’t have to move between
separate, disparate platforms and
products, thereby introducing risk
and potentially disrupting the chain
of custody.
What to look for in
digital forensics:
Forensic investigations today frequently
need to cut across distributed digital
teams, with an overwhelming amount
of data to process. From multiple office
locations, to massive employee pools
and remote workers, investigators need
enterprise tool sets that provide deep
visibility into live data directly at the
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