Healthcare faces the highest breach costs globally — $7.42M per incident. HIPAA requires formal risk assessments under 45 CFR §164.402 and breach notification to HHS/OCR within 60 days. Our reports meet OCR documentation standards and support the determination and notification process, coordinated with your Privacy Officer and legal counsel.
Business email compromise costs US financial firms over $2.9 billion annually — and speed of response determines how much loss is recoverable. We conduct BEC investigations, wire fraud forensics, and SOC 2 breach investigations for banks, credit unions, and FinTech companies, meeting OCC, FDIC, and SEC reporting requirements.
Law firms hold attorney-client privileged data that creates unique forensic challenges. Improperly scoped collection can inadvertently waive privilege. We structure engagements in coordination with counsel to protect privilege, scope evidence appropriately, and deliver eDiscovery forensic support including expert witness testimony.
OT/ICS environments require forensic investigators with specialized expertise — evidence collection from industrial control systems must be performed with extreme care to avoid operational disruption. We also serve state and local government agencies on incident response, forensic investigation, and litigation support following NIST and CISA frameworks.
DFIR is the combined discipline of digital forensics (investigation of what happened — evidence collection, analysis, and reporting) and incident response (operational management of an active threat — containment, eradication, and recovery). The two disciplines are most effective when run simultaneously: incident responders contain the threat while forensic specialists preserve and analyze evidence before containment actions destroy it. Running them sequentially is a common and expensive mistake.
Call our emergency response line immediately — 24/7/365. Do not reimage any systems, do not attempt to run decryption tools without guidance, and do not pay any ransom demand without professional assessment of your options. The actions taken in the first 60 minutes of a ransomware response have an outsized impact on total recovery cost. Our team will initiate remote triage within one hour of your call.
Timeline depends directly on scope. A single-device examination for a legal matter typically takes 5–15 business days. A mid-scope breach investigation involving 10–50 systems and cloud environments generally requires 3–6 weeks for a complete forensic report. Large-scale enterprise investigations may run 8–16 weeks. We provide a specific timeline with defined milestones at engagement kickoff — not a vague estimate.
Yes. Every investigation report follows documented forensic methodology, maintains verified chain of custody, and is written to meet the evidentiary standards of US federal and state courts and the reporting requirements of HHS/OCR (HIPAA), the SEC, the FTC, and state attorneys general. Our investigators hold professional certifications and are available to provide expert witness testimony in legal proceedings.
A DFIR retainer is a pre-arranged agreement with guaranteed response SLAs, a pre-established working relationship with your assigned forensic team, and pre-approved legal agreements — all in place before you need them. Per-incident engagement means contracting, scoping, and team orientation all happen under breach conditions, when your organization is least equipped to manage them efficiently. Retainer clients typically experience faster containment, better forensic outcomes, and lower total incident costs.