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When Mazars started their search for a cloud-based e-discovery software platform, one proven tool stood out, AD eDiscovery, the flagship e-discovery software from AccessData, which helps organizations better mitigate risk, ensure compliance, improve incident response efficiency and reduce overall data processing costs.

Eide Bailly, a certified public accounting and business advisory firm were longtime users of FTK for digital investigations. When they heard AccessData developed the industry’s first centralized investigations platform accessible in the Cloud, they were eager to see how it could help them better serve clients.

When long-time AccessData customer Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP wanted to move their in-house e-discovery to the cloud, both to innovate their e-discovery strategy and help reduce IT expense, they ultimately selected Hosted Summation over the competition as their preferred solution. Read the case study to see why.

With the need of more Internet crimes against children investigators, Detective Matt Barr, a digital forensics investigator with the Michigan City Police Department, gladly offered his services. View this case study to see how AccessData’s solutions offer the essential speed needed to catch a predator before another innocent child is victimized.

In the aftermath of the shooting in the Colorado Century Aurora 16 theater complex on July, 2012, Detective Mike Leiker, lead forensic investigator with the Aurora police department, quickly went to work investigating the devices collected from the suspect. Read his account of the investigation, and how FTK was crucial to help him uncover the evidence needed to bring the killer to justice.

The volume and severity of data breaches have grown tremendously with the increase in a number of businesses going digital. Cyber-attacks happen with lightning speed, resulting in data loss and data exposure that leave a myriad of organizations with ruined brand reputation, loss of customer trust, and business discontinuity.

Digital forensics professionals at tax authorities in Europe are faced with three major challenges when it comes to investigating financial fraud.

With GDPR now in effect, and CCPA on the horizon, organizations should be taking measures to ensure compliance under these regulations. AccessData has worked with Osterman Research to conduct an in-depth survey of North American organizations with regard to their plans for GDPR and CCPA compliance. This white paper provides an overview of the survey findings.

Co-authored by Elizabeth Rogers, Partner at Michael Best, and Melissa Singleton from AccessData, this white paper outlines the critical role of in-house legal in helping organizations effectively collaborate to manage post-breach investigations and minimize the damage―from the initial identification and investigation, through reporting findings and learning from the incident.

Law enforcement agencies around the world are facing a similar challenge: digital evidence is a key component of every investigation they conduct and the volume of data they must inspect continues to grow every year. Read the white paper to find out how new technology can help.

Meet AD QBlaze in this on-demand webinar. QBlaze provides a blazing-fast, flexible desktop review experience, delivered in a unique software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, fully managed by AccessData and built with the power of AWS. With QBlaze, attorney reviewers, e-discovery and lit support teams, as well as service providers will appreciate the speed and performance of a desktop app, while enabling rapid autoscaling of the DPE and database without an increased need for hardware, software maintenance and management, outsourced IT or data centers - for unmatched efficiency, consistent peak performance and deep cost savings.

Save time and costs while enabling a high-quality desktop experience with the power and reliability of the AWS Cloud for crucial legal review tasks. AD QBlaze delivers intuitive prebuilt or custom review workflows with processing on a lightweight cloud platform that's managed and optimized by AccessData to leverage the scalability of a SaaS model.

Customers talk about why they love attending ADUS and what new attendees can look forward to.

Information security professionals need to become more aware of the personal risks that they face, the legal landscape for incident response and security generally, and how to best protect themselves, their jobs and their careers. Aravind Swaminathan, partner at Orrick, will draw on his experience representing and advising information security professionals in connection with large data security events, and offer practical advice on how to keep you and your career protected.

Learn how leveraging the cloud can help service providers get a secure, flexible solution for managing the diverse needs of their clients.

Whether you’re investigating a data breach, employee misconduct, or potential IT policy violation, you need to covertly access multiple operating systems and encrypted endpoints, without alerting employees or disrupting business operations. Only AD Enterprise 7.3 supports the mass deployment of remote Mac agents to expand your forensic collection capabilities to endpoints running on a macOS operating system, up to macOS 10.15 (Catalina). Our integration with Jamf® remote agent deployment eliminates the need for manual intervention, allowing the user to covertly preview and search live data at the Mac endpoint, before initiating a targeted collection.

In the heat of legal review, you want to gain speed and capacity without burning through resources. AD QBlaze from AccessData provides a blazing-fast, flexible desktop review experience delivered in a unique SaaS (software-as-a-service) model, fully managed by AccessData and built with the power of Amazon. With QBlaze, you get the performance of a desktop app and a rapidly autoscaling database and engine with Elastic Cloud Processing—with little to no IT management required or burden to infrastructure—for unmatched efficiency, consistent peak performance and deep cost savings.

The AccessData® Academic Program provides colleges and universities the necessary tools to offer state-of-the-art digital forensics training.

Download a review of AD Enterprise, as published in Forensic Focus. Jade James reviews the product's key features, including the ability to preview live data; filtering and targeting options for those who only want to retrieve data that is pertinent; the ability to conduct live memory analysis to find traces of malware; and identification and removal of unapproved process by wiping or killing remotely.

AccessData’s computer forensics experts are available to assist with your most complex and sensitive investigative or litigation matters involving electronic evidence or data preservation. Our investigators have more than 30 years of experience investigating administrative cases, civil cases, local and federal crimes. We offer personalized services to our clients during every phase of the investigation to ensure that they receive the artifacts and evidence needed for their cases.

These are challenging times for organizations and professionals engaged in forensic analysis and e-discovery. Investigations are multiplying and diversifying—there are more of them, and new types of cases arise all the time. As volumes and complexity increase, meeting deadlines and reaching beneficial outcomes become more difficult. Tackling today’s challenging investigations requires smarter solutions that can accommodate the changing nature of investigations and empower diversifying teams. This ebook explores the changing landscape of digital forensics and how machine learning can help.

The May 25, 2018 deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is quickly approaching. Are you ready for it? This AccessData sponsored eBook by Osterman Research provides a background and history of the GDPR, what is considered personal data, what your obligations are and how technology can help you in your ongoing compliance journey.

The data available to modern investigators may be a threat to criminals; surveillance, communications and transactions create a backlog that could take years to go through. This book explores the processes, standards and tools necessary for today’s investigators to accelerate their search and discover more impactful intel.

Digital Discovery Technology Planning

Each year, hundreds of businesses and millions of individuals are impacted by a data breach. Even the best cyber security defense and detection software cannot prevent 100 percent of attacks. Download our Cyber Security Guide to find out what to do when the inevitable happens.

While Office 365 offers a significant and useful set of tools, it is not the only solution that most organizations will need to satisfy e-discovery requirements. This infographic explores key areas of e-discovery where supplementing with third-party tools may be necessary to complement the native capabilities in Office 365.

This infographic outlines the facts about GDPR and its global implications to help organizations prepare for when the new regulations go into effect.

A recent survey of the AccessData® public sector clients highlights the future trends and challenges they face and how they plan on managing speci c roadblocks.

AD eDiscovery^® is the only solution offering forensically sound collection through review in a single, integrated platform with a secure backend database so your data never has to move during e-discovery. Take a look at what customers are saying about AD eDiscovery!