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Digital Evidence Preservation and Forensic Data Acquisition

Preservation-first services for insurance disputes, litigation holds, SIU matters, and employee departures.

Common Matter Types

Insurance disputes

Preserve devices, accounts, communications, and system records before access changes, device turnover, or deletion.

Litigation holds

Preserve devices, accounts, and system records before retention periods expire or devices are returned, reassigned, replaced, or wiped.

SIU

Preserve account activity, communications, device data, and access records in matters involving suspected compromise, record manipulation, unauthorized access, or disputed activity.

Employee departures

Preserve devices, email, cloud data, and system records before access termination or device return, reassignment, replacement, or wiping.

Scope, Authority, and Timing

Written intake identifies the primary contact, approved scope, sources, preservation deadlines, source availability, transfer method, return instructions, and delivery requirements.

Authority and approved scope

Confirm custodians, sources, access conditions, and approved scope.

Related sources

Determine whether linked backups, synchronized accounts, shared repositories, administrator exports, and removable media fall within the approved scope.

Timing and source availability

Identify preservation deadlines and sources subject to retention limits, access changes, device turnover, or deletion.

Transfer, return, and delivery

Specify the transfer method, return timing, delivery destination, and expected deliverables.

Matter Documentation

Intake summary

Primary contact, custodians, sources, approved scope, preservation deadlines, and expected deliverables.

Preservation log

Sources, dates, methods, and notes.

Custody, transfer, and delivery records

Records document receipt and transfer of original devices or media, their return, and delivery of the preserved material.

Verification record

Method used and result recorded.