Inland Direct is the expert source in the application of internet and computer forensic technologies. We are skilled in the latest data acquisition, e-discovery, and computer forensic software.

Hard Drive/ Digital Media Acquisitions

The process of creating an exact duplicate of the original media is often called drive acquisition or imaging. Through the use of a standalone hard drive duplicator or software imaging tools such as: DCFLdd; IXimager; EnCase™; FTK Imager; Helix or Raptor, the entire hard drive is completely duplicated. This is usually done at the sector level, making a bit-stream copy of every part of the user-accessible areas of the hard drive.  The bit-stream copy can physically store data, rather than duplicating the file systems. The original drive is then moved to secure storage to prevent tampering. During imaging, a write protection device or application is normally used to ensure that no information is introduced onto the evidentiary media during the forensic process.

Data Recovery

All digital media must be analyzed to determine the type of information that is stored upon it. For this purpose, specialty tools are used that can display information in a format useful to the analysis. Such forensic tools include AccessData's FTK and Guidance Software's EnCase™. In many situations, numerous other tools are used to analyze specific portions of information.

Typical forensic analysis includes a manual review of material on the media, reviewing the Windows registry for specific information, discovering and cracking passwords, keyword searches for topics related to the examination, and extracting e-mail, images, and documents for review.

Drive Sanitation

We have experience in using a variety of different software applications to permanently clean sensitive data off of your digital media.  Drive sanitation ensures that your old data cannot be recovered and compromised.

Reporting

Inland Direct will create a detailed report documenting the results of the forensic data recovery. These reports reflect professional looking documents used in various analysis, research, and data acquisitioning projects.

Specialty Areas:

We specialize in recovering MySpace.com and real estate software, computer- related artifacts. Many of our services are listed below. For more information or if you have specific questions, please contact us.

MySpace.com computer-related artifacts. Some of the artifacts that *may be recovered are:

-IM chat logs

-User message inbox
-User mail message
-User reply to message/ bulletin
-Bulletin inbox
-Bulletin message
-Forward mail message
-Messages in trash
-User comments page
-User friends page list
-User profile page
-User control panel
-User view pictures area
-User picture album area
-Incoming friend requests
-MySpace blog pages

 

Real estate software-related artifacts. Inland Direct represents extensive background in real estate and is experienced in applying may of the different software suites that are used to perform real estate and mortgage transactions. We also hold experience in real estate related examinations.

*Note that computer artifacts will vary. Several factors contribute to the presence of these artifacts which   include, but are not limited to, the computer's operating system, computer memory (RAM), and user activity.