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Computer forensics is a new discipline in computer security that focuses on finding digital evidence after a computer security incident has occurred. The general goal is to conduct an investigation and determined what happened and who was responsible for it. The staff of Kevin W. McClain Investigations, Ltd. has a computer technician that was trained through the U.S. Department of Defense. Essentially when we are involved in a computer case there are generally three phases to recovering the evidence they are (1) Acquire (2) Analyze and (3) Report. Computer analysis has been utilized by our firm in criminal matters, child custody matters as well as corporate issues.

CASE STUDY #1
Client was involved in a nasty child custody case. One of the issues was the client had retained possession of the computer. The issue was the ex-wife was constantly on the computer during the time she was caring for the child. Our forensic team was able to acquire from the father the computer. A forensic examination was able to acquire numerous explicit pictures and e-mails that the mother had sent. The defense was able to demonstrate to the court that during the time the mother should have been watching the baby she was actually on the internet. The internet communications and pictures revealed numerous disparaging comments the mother had made about the baby making her upset while she was trying to chat on the internet. The judge allowed all of our information acquired from the hard drive to be introduced as evidence. This was the first time in that county that computer recovered evidence was allowed to be introduced. Based upon the information recovered the judge was able to view all the facts of the case and awarded full custody to our client.