Digital Forensics
We help uncover the tracks, identifying: (a) what information was touched, (b) what was taken, (c) where it was staged, and (d) building an evidence-based timeline, retracing the bad actor’s steps. Understanding their order of operations empowers us to react in a more effective manner.
Advantages
A single source to investigate incidents
The Actfore data forensics team takes a flexible intelligence-based approach to tackling each engagement. Understanding your environment and determining the quickest way to interrogate the data to get you results faster. Regardless of our approach, our tools will maintain an audit trail with software logging to ensure defensibility, with reports that will inevitably be leveraged on numerous down-stream efforts.
Expedited forensics
with data expertise
Leveraging cutting edge technologies, our analysts will uncover the business-critical and sensitive information exposed to the threat actors.
Long-term
data retention
Our tools allow native migration of data to a legal-hold repository, allowing for the business to carry on without further disruption.
Quickly deploy and
collect data
Our suite of out-of-the-box reports, allows Actfore data analysts to provide you with the mission critical deliverables to get ahead of the threat actors.
Featured Capabilities
With a multitude of potential threats lurking, Actfore is here to help you identify, collect, and investigate.
At Actfore, we utilize cutting edge technologies to programmatically examine metadata attributes and logs. Our tools allow us to deploy quickly, copy data for analysis, inventory the metadata, to then compare against security logs.
Intellectual property (IP) theft
Regardless if it's nation-states, private groups, or insider threats, our tools allow data experts to uncover the theft of trade secrets, inventions, or sensitive information. Differentiating between what was accessed and what was taken.
Ransomware support
Within hours we will rapidly analyze the data taken to give you an understanding of what secrets the threat actor has in their possession. Giving you the power to determine the risk involved.
Data breach analysis
Exfiltration of personally identifiable information (PII) or personal health information (PHI) may pose a risk to you, your employees, and your customers,
Destructive code
Either a targeted attack or passive infiltration via phishing like tactics, our tools are able to identify specific files or code lying dormant in your data.
Our Methods
A proven approach to evidence-based digital forensics
Immediate Data Discovery
Reporting
Deployment &
Ingestion
Either on-prem, in the cloud, or in our lab, we will deploy our tools and connect to the data. An initial inventory of the data will provide high level findings.
Metadata and
Log Analysis
Our AI tools coupled with data analysts will begin analyzing the metadata and security logs.
Breadcrumb
Coupling
Utilizing various datapoints, we will build an evidence-based trail, mapping out the path of the threat actor and uncovering the files touched or exfiltrated.
Understanding
At-Risk Data
We will provide reports identifying the file tree of touched/viewed and exfiltrated data.
Review Format &
Publish
Our reports indicate the path the threat actor took, the timeline of the breach, cluster of data at-risk, and high-level textual findings of exposed data.
Why Actfore
Big data experts, looking to shed light on your data
At Actfore, we’re programmers and data experts, not salespeople. Our team of experts are focused on uncovering the answers scattered across your data. Let us handle your data challenges with speed and accuracy.