The overarching need for businesses to become more efficient and integrated with other business entities and the home user has generated a new type of criminal, referred to commonly as " cyber-criminals ." The current state of business security can no longer be described as a matter of "will your organization be comprised (hacked)?" but, rather, "when?" Today's battles between corporations, governments, and countries are no longer waged exclusively in the typical arenas of boardrooms or battlefields using physical force. A new battlefield commences in the technical realm, tying and incorporating into most every facet of modern life.

ISFMT's Forensics Focus

Our certified and experienced personnel utilize numerous top tools of the forensics trade including software, hardware, capture and image tools concurrently with specialized forensics and e-discovery techniques. The ISFMT team possesses a background of years of past experience, the knowledge, and “real-world” skills required to identify, track, and prosecute a cyber-criminal, by identifying, collecting, documenting, storing, preserving, and analyzing evidence.

The ISFMT team has extensive experience and expertise in computer, network, mobile phone device, and virtualized environment forensics, including, but not limited to:

• Evidence preservation, collection, analysis, and delivery
  
• Real-time investigation and analysis in an operational environment (e.g., on a production network during an incident)
  
• Root-cause identification
  
• Malware/Crime-ware detection and analysis, including, but not limited to, reverse engineering
  
• Determination of the full extent of incidents
  
• Documentation, including, but not limited to, chain-of-custody
  
• Criminal and civil investigative requirements and evidentiary procedures
  
• Determination of the validity of “Trojan horse defenses”
  
• Providing litigation support services
  
• Serving as expert witnesses, including, but not limited to, testimony in court and for disciplinary proceedings
  
• Detailed expertise and experience with various Forensics Case Management Toolsets including EnCase, Access Data, Paraben and other forensic toolsets
  
• Dealing with cyber attacks, phishing attacks, and other malicious/criminal activity involving computers and/or individuals, both from within and outside the United States
  

Microsoft Windows and Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, LAMP Web-server, Apple Mac, Microsoft Office, removable media, Cisco networking, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry, Citrix, and VMware are only a fraction of the devices and environments which our team specializes.

The professionals employed by ISFMT are industry leaders, originating from a wide range of academic and technical disciplines; law, law enforcement, military, and governmental careers. Our principal forensics examiner is regularly featured as a speaker for security conferences as well as serving as an adjunct professor at a local university.