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Digital Forensics / Incident Response / Cyber Readiness

When facts matter, turn to digital evidence.

We help you understand digital evidence, respond to a cyber incident, and prepare your organization before the next crisis. Our work connects the technical findings with the decisions you need to make.

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Evidence for your case. Support for your business.

We help litigation lawyers and litigants understand digital evidence, with clear findings and expert opinions. When a cyberattack strikes, we help assess the incident, secure affected systems, investigate what happened and support recovery. Our annual BreachReady program puts retained specialists at your side with priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement, then strengthens your preparation through practical planning and exercises.

LEGAL CASES & WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS

Digital Forensics

We preserve, examine, and explain the digital evidence that matters to your case or investigation. We work with lawyers and organizations on disputed records, employee data theft, and HR concerns.

We help litigation lawyers and litigants find clarity in digital evidence. From computers and cell phones to messages, email and other digital records, we preserve and analyze the information relevant to your case and provide clear findings and expert opinions for legal proceedings.

  • Computers, phones, email and cloud evidence
  • Employee departures and internal investigations
  • Clear findings, expert reports and testimony
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FOR ORGANIZATIONS FACING AN INCIDENT

Incident Response

If you are facing ransomware, business email compromise, or suspected data theft, we help you establish what happened and what needs attention next. We work alongside your IT team and advisers to coordinate the response.

When a cyberattack disrupts your business, we help you take control. Our experts respond quickly to assess the incident, secure affected systems, investigate what happened and support restoration, helping you get back online.

  • Urgent incident assessment and investigation
  • Coordination with your IT team and advisers
  • Evidence-led priorities for recovery
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FOR ORGANIZATIONS INVESTING AHEAD

BreachReady

Retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 are in place from day one of your active BreachReady agreement. Our annual program then builds your response plan, rehearses decisions with your team and guides improvements throughout the year.

An annual cyber readiness program with retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. Practical planning, preparation and exercises help your team respond in a structured way and recover faster when a crisis hits.

  • Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one
  • A tailored response plan, playbooks and tabletop practice
  • Annual testing, improvements and flexible forensic hours
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Your response experts, retained before a crisis.

When a cyberattack hits, you should not be searching for help, comparing quotes or arranging a retainer. BreachReady puts retained incident-response experts at your side, with priority access to support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement.

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  • Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one
  • Annual planning and rehearsal for a structured response
  • Expert guidance to help reduce avoidable downtime and recover faster

Your response experts, retained before a crisis.

When a cyberattack hits, you should not be searching for specialists or arranging a retainer. From day one of your active BreachReady agreement, you have retained incident-response experts with priority access to support 24/7.

DFI does the heavy lifting so you can focus on running your business.

We build your plan, guide your team through rehearsal and carry improvements forward through our annual preparedness and response program. You provide the business context and key decisions; we agree the technical responsibilities with your team before the work begins.

A practical roadmap to cyber resilience

  1. At Risk

    We help you identify the gaps that could leave your team unsure how to respond.

  2. Developing

    We build your plan, connect the people involved and help you rehearse their decisions.

  3. Response Ready

    Your team has completed its core preparation: a plan, playbooks, specialist arrangements and a tabletop. Retained support is already in place under your active agreement.

    30–60-day initial target*

  4. Resilient

    We help you sustain readiness through testing, prioritized improvements, reporting and review.

* The 30–60-day target concerns preparation, not when retained support begins. Timing depends on scope, information access, participation and scheduling. Testing and improvement continue through the year. Readiness levels describe preparation; service tiers set hours and testing scope.

Three implementation levels. The right fit for your organization.

ONE COMPLETE CORE PROGRAM

Included at every implementation level

Every active agreement begins with retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one. The same annual preparation follows at every level; included hours and testing scope vary to fit your organization.

  • Retained specialists with priority support 24/7
  • Tailored incident response plan
  • Cyber incident playbooks
  • Facilitated tabletop exercise
  • Annual scoped penetration testing
  • BEC and ransomware mitigation guidance
  • Response kit and essential contacts
  • Client portal, monthly reporting, threat intelligence and annual review

Your included hours can support cyber incident response or any DFI digital forensics service, including employee, HR, internal and regulatory investigations.

Essential Readiness

Advanced Readiness

Complete Readiness

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DIGITAL FORENSICS

The evidence is the start.
Determining the facts is the answer.

We help you choose the work that fits your questions, the available records, and the decisions ahead.

Digital Forensics

Computer forensics

We examine computers and storage records to help you understand what happened in a dispute, investigation, or incident. Your questions guide the examination, and we explain what the available evidence can and cannot establish.

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Mobile device forensics

We help you preserve and understand the messages, media, and application records available from a phone or tablet. If a passcode is lost, forgotten, or unknown, we can assess specialist access options for that particular device.

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Email & cloud evidence

We preserve and examine relevant mailbox, attachment, and cloud activity records from authorized accounts. We help you connect communications and account activity to the event you need to understand.

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Employee data theft investigations

If you suspect business information has been moved or misused, we help you test that concern against the digital evidence. We examine relevant activity before or after an employee departure without assuming misconduct.

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eDiscovery & evidence production

We help your legal team turn collected data into material they can review and use. Working to agreed instructions, we support collection, processing, search, and organized evidence production.

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Expert reports & testimony

We explain digital evidence and technical opinions in a form you can use to make informed legal or organizational decisions. Our reporting connects the questions asked to the examination performed and the conclusions the evidence supports.

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WHO WE SERVE

Expertise relevant to your situation.

We work with legal, business, IT, and public-sector teams, adapting the scope and explanation to your responsibilities.

Who We Serve

Lawyers & law firms

We help you turn legal questions into a focused forensic examination, preserve the relevant sources, and understand what the evidence can support.

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Businesses & leadership teams

We help you investigate business concerns and digital evidence. Through an active BreachReady agreement, retained specialists and priority support 24/7 begin on day one, with annual preparation around your operations.

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IT teams & managed service providers

We add forensic investigation and retained incident-response expertise alongside your team. BreachReady provides priority support 24/7 from day one of an active agreement, followed by practical annual preparation.

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Municipalities

Retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of an active BreachReady agreement, with annual preparation around the essential services your community depends on.

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School districts

Retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of an active BreachReady agreement, followed by district-specific planning and exercises for learning and operations.

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Post-secondary institutions

Retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of an active BreachReady agreement, with annual preparation across the participating teams and services.

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Insurers & breach counsel

We provide forensic investigation and clear, scoped reporting to help you advise an organization through an incident and understand the evidence behind its response decisions.

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Who We Serve

Individuals & estates

We help you assess whether a device or account examination can address your concern, what access may be available, and who needs to authorize the work.

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WHY DFI FORENSICS

Technical rigor.
A clear explanation.

We listen to what you need to establish, examine the evidence independently, and explain the findings in language you can use.

Meet DFI Forensics
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Understand the question

We define the questions and scope with you before choosing a method.

02

Follow the evidence

We test possible explanations and show you where the evidence has limits.

03

Make the findings useful

We connect our findings to the decisions you and your advisers need to make.

FROM THE BLOG

Useful before you need us.

We share what to consider when you are working with digital evidence, investigating a concern, or preparing for an incident.

Article

Need Text Messages for Court? What Lawyers Should Know About Phone Extractions

What happens during a phone extraction, what analysis follows and how your client can prepare. Practical advice for litigation lawyers, with a downloadable reference to keep or share.

Prepare your client’s phone and understand the steps from extraction to verified message records.

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Article

When a PDF of Text Messages Is Disputed

If a message exhibit is disputed, we help you identify what needs to be tested and compare it with lawfully available source records. We explain what can be established and where the evidence falls short when devices or accounts are unavailable.

Understand what the underlying evidence can establish when a text-message PDF is challenged.

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Article

Mobile Messaging Evidence Beyond Screenshots

We help you plan the preservation and examination of mobile conversations, from SMS, MMS and iMessage to WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram and Signal. The right approach depends on your devices, accounts and available records; no method can promise access to every device or backup.

See what phone and app records can reveal beyond screenshots, including conversation context.

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YOUR NEXT STEP

What do you need to understand?

Tell us about your situation. We can help you identify the evidence, support, or preparation that fits.

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