ABCO Investigations Private Detective Agency & Background Screenings

12102 Ocean Gateway | Route 50 West Ocean City, 21842 | Golden Pond Center Unit #1 | 410-213-0220 | Fax 410-213-7661

Computer Forensics / Email Retrieval

Over 90 percent of all documents now exist only in electronic form and are, therefore, out of reach of the typical paper-based production process. Today, email, voicemail, instant messages and electronic calendars, document daily interactions among colleagues, clients and vendors. Accessing any of these "needles in a haystack" could win your case. Your challenge is to find them without compromising their admissibility in court while avoiding a costly interruption of your business operations.
Every interaction with modern computer operating systems leave traces of information that can be recovered to reconstruct computer user activity, contents of documents and electronic communications. Many of these traces remain for months or years. ABCO Investigations has certified forensic examiners that through can transform your raw trace data into admissible actionable digital evidence.
ABCO Investigations can help you throughout the entire recovery process.from discovery to testimony. all while ensuring the Chain of Custody is maintained for all evidence at all times.
Computer forensic examinations can reveal the following:

Intentional data destruction, including use of drive wipers and evidence eliminators
Programs executed and times of execution
Information transfer to external storage media, including USB drives, thumb drives, CD's and DVD's
Email
Instant messenger and chat logs
Internet activity including browsing history, viewed pages, login credentials and website cookies
Document creation, access, revision, printing times and authors
File creation, access, modification and deletion times
Authentication credentials and passwords used for system access, email access, websites, disk and file-level encryption

Forensic Analysis and Reporting

ABCO Investigations' Forensic Analysts can access information that may appear to be destroyed, deleted, encrypted or password protected: including email, electronic documents, web browsing history, online chat logs, images, document creation, revision timelines and more.. We will provide detailed findings in a format that is usable by non-technical personnel, attorneys, judges and jury's.
With us on your side, we allow our clients to:

Identify, capture and preserve the information your case depends on.
Access internal company (or personal) data that you didn't know you had.
Ensure the admissibility of your evidence in a U.S. court of law.
Maintain normal business operations during an investigation.
Contain litigation costs.