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Incident
Response - Quickly investigate and positively determine
if any compromises have been made to your systems as the
result of an incident – without taking your system out
of service. Special attention should be paid to Windows
Rootkits and the they threat they pose.
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System
Audits – Effectively audit systems throughout the
network to insure that they have not been compromised.
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Internal
Investigations – Investigate and monitor internal
computer systems to insure compliance with the law or
corporate policies.
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Computer
Forensics – Thoroughly examine all data on a computer
system, locate any evidence that is stored on that system
and safely preserve that evidence for use in a court of
law.
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Supported Departments :
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Information Technology
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Human Resources
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Legal Department
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Training:
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Incident Response Formulation, Planning & Evaluation.
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First Responders Guide To Digital Crime Scenes.
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Search and Seizing Computers in Criminal Justice
Investigations.
As Admiral Plehal indicates, the threats to our information
comes from many sources, via a variety of methods and for
many different reasons. Whether state sponsored high level
industrial espionage Annual
Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial
Espionage to the lone disgruntled employee who installs
data collection Spyware on your network - each entity is determined
to obtain your, or your customers information for their purpose.
The Digital Forensic Group (DFG) of PROTEX International believes soundly that information security is about more than just technology. Accordingly, we focus on the "human factor" and employ technology as a tool to minimize the threat posed by the improper and/or illegal use of technology in the corporate environment.
A recent article by Mr. Heath, Titled; "Beware Of The Inside Job - Is Your Trusted Network Truly Trustworthy? " Discusses at length the issue of INTRANET security vis a vis trusted individuals within an organization. In this article, Mr. Heath discusses in depth the information system architecture of many organizations and offers thoughtful insight on potential ways to mitigate exposure to an internal threat.
In keeping with this theme, Sharon Gaudin recently published an article "Nothing is Secret with Spyware Lurking in PCs" in this article she discusses the threat posed by Spyware applications which may be actively working on your system today.In an additional article, Sharon Guiden wrote of the threat posed to corporation by employee use of Peer-to-Peer Networks "Despite IT Efforts, Corporate P2P Use Rampant."
We assist our clientele in meeting state and federal regulatory requirements by helping them develop and implement programs which safeguard personal, medical, and intellectual-property and personal information.
The following linked article "National
Strategy To Security Cyber Space" provides detailed provides
a framework for protecting this infrastructure that is essential
to our economy, security, and way of life.
Additionally, "Annual
Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial
Espionage" that the United States continues to be threatened
by the theft of proprietary economic information and critical
technologies.
The 2005
Computer Security Institute (CSI)/Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) Eighth Annual Computer Crime and Security Survey
paint a compelling portrait of just how often crime occurs
on computer networks and just how expensive such crime can
be.
How
Safe Is Your System? is provides an excellent topical
overview of the elementary how and whys of computer intrusion.
The Digital Forensics Groups possesses extensive capabilities to assist corporate client's in identifying and reducing the threats to their product, information and/or reputation.
"We increasingly rely on new information technologies
and the Internet to conduct business, manage industrial activities,
engage in personal communications, and perform scientific
research. While these technologies allow for enormous gains
in efficiency, productivity, and communications, they also
create vulnerabilities to those who would do us harm. The
same interconnectivity that allows us to transmit information
around the globe at the click of a mouse or push of a button
also creates unprecedented opportunities for criminals, terrorists,
and hostile foreign nation-states who might seek to steal
money or proprietary data, invade private records, conduct
industrial espionage, cause a vital infrastructure to cease
operations, or engage in Information Warfare. (Rear Admiral
Jim Plehal, Director, Infrastructure or the AIA and Department
of Homeland Security ".
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