Forensic technology

Therefore, in today's digital environment, practitioners must have a perfect understanding of how information can be retrieved, securely stored, and processed. This allows practitioners to build the best possible case, whilst complying with applicable laws and regulations.

By harnessing the array of technology available in our worldwide network of computer forensics labs, our professionals can recover a wealth of information from computer hard drives and other devices, including active, deleted, hidden, lost or encrypted files; file fragments; and even files that were merely viewed but never saved (memory forensics).

We offer the following forensic technology services that are fully optimized for Luxembourg:  

Technology support for forensic investigations (IT-forensics and e-Discovery)

Our suite of technology support services includes:

IT-forensics

IT-forensics investigations allow a specific and identified incident and its consequences to be better understood. It generally involves a limited number of artefacts. Some examples include:

• Unauthorized access and/or industrial espionage investigations;
• Misuse of the internet and/or misuse of corporate data and email accounts;
• Intentional or unintentional data leakage;
• Assistance for data extraction in cases such as fraud/misrepresentation;
• Sensitive data and email recovery.

First, all identified assets, which may potentially be linked to the case, are imaged and then sealed (chain of custody). Then, the assets are investigated as a priority to understand the incident and its timeline.

e-Discovery

Most e-discovery investigations involve substantial amounts of data/assets and/or exhaustive output results. e-Discovery can either be the starting point of an investigation or follow an IT-forensics investigation. It allows complex cases to be understood, “needles in a haystack” to be found, and provides evidence sets (called a production) for use in court.

Some examples include:

• Analysis of data leakage, classification, review of impacts and possible mitigation measures;
• International investigations required by authorities;
• Production of evidence for a court; or
• Provision of technical assistance to counsel.

Depending on the case size, a review platform may be necessary to allow a team of reviewers (which may be comprised of client counsel or Deloitte review teams) to examine the artefacts and select the most relevant ones.

Our service offering

Our team uses cutting-edge software and infrastructure, including best-of-breed commercial and internally developed tools, to identify relevant artefacts in a variety of ways—from simple keyword searches to assisted reviews involving the latest machine learning algorithms (AI).

We can help you analyze different types of data such as files, emails, phone calls, databases, and financial transactions (e.g., SWIFT). We take care of pre-processing activities such as language recognition, optical character recognition (OCR), identification of encrypted/corrupted items, (near-)duplicates, embedded items, etc.

If e-Discovery is required, our infrastructure is scalable based on your needs and the project’s size. We develop or set up tools depending on the case’s complexity and your requirements.

We can host infrastructure locally in our Luxembourg offices, at your premises or at your counsel’s site, as applicable. Hosting can include secure remote access (with two-factor authentication, monitoring, etc.) to the case files and review platform.

All our projects include evidence management and comply with forensic best practices.

Any incident that needs forensic investigation may result in legal action, which requires the data and evidence to be collected and stored in a manner that will be admissible in court. Our forensic professionals can help manage the entire process from evidence collection to legal support (storage, legal case preparation and presentation, etc.).

Data mining and intelligence

The integrity of data is a key issue for all businesses. To identify fraud risks and any abuse of corporate financial assets, our team can quickly and cost-effectively assess the accuracy and integrity of system data, using sophisticated data interrogation and analysis, statistical sampling, and regression techniques.