Fewer dentists use paper charts than ever before.

Once considered the gold standard of record keeping, paper charts have been steadily replaced by the electronic dental record.

DIGITAL FORENSICS AND LITIGATION

Digital forensics is incredibly important for legal proceedings as it can help provide clear and compelling evidence to help prove or disprove a case.

Digital forensics can uncover electronic evidence such as emails, texts, photos, and more that can be used to aid in litigation.

Additionally, it can help recover deleted data that might not be available from other sources.

By analyzing digital evidence, digital forensics can provide an accurate timeline of events leading up to or during a case, and help establish the credibility of witnesses or documents by verifying their origin or source.

In summary, digital forensics is an invaluable tool for litigation and can provide an invaluable source of information to help build a solid case.

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HOW WE DO IT.

Our digital forensic generally follows these five steps.

Assess

Before any data is collected, Hiltz & Associates will assess your situation to determine the data that is most critical to your case.

Our approach to devise a plan to get the information needed at the lowest collection cost.

Collect

When required, before beginning an examination, Hiltz & Associates will create a forensic copy* of the source to safeguard its integrity.

* a forensic copy is an exact and complete reproduction of the original media.

Depending on the case, we can also obtain data from other third parties such as Google, Microsoft, cloud hosting, mobile network, ISP, and more.

Examine

The objective this stage is to parse the data to identify relevant information for analysis. This process typically involves,

  • recovering deleted information
  • indexing mailboxes, computer backups, and compressed archives
  • retrieve artifacts such as web browser history
  • extracting metadata
  • identifying the history of opened files and connected storage devices
  • culling unnecessary files (duplicate and system/application files)

Analyze

Hiltz & Associates will analyze the data collected using powerful forensic tools to find specific types of data.

Searches are typically conducted using keywords, IP addresses, email addresses, file types, date ranges, and other fields.

This enables us to match digital evidence with timings in order to support or disprove the provenance of evidence and witness testimony. The goal is to establish a sound narrative around various pieces of digital evidence that can help your attorneys argue and win your case.

EXPERT REPORT

Hiltz & Associates can provide an expert report based on your specific circumstance.

In some cases, an expert report is not desirable since it is discoverable by the opposing party. In such circumstances, we will report and discuss our work product findings with your attorney.

If an expert report is required, it will summarize each phase of our forensic work, and include our exhibits, demonstratives, opinions and conclusions.

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