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Areas of Expertise:
Discovery on computer data storage equipment: forensic imaging of evidence stored on computer disks and assured, secure authentication and protection of such evidence; extraction and protection of digital evidence from non-functional hard drives; capture of evidentiary computer data from on-site suspect locations; forensic discovery of deleted files, documents and emails stored on computer; expert witness testimony on hard disk drive operation, computer data recovery science and all data storage device technologies.

Summary of Experience:

The Micro Com Digital Discovery team is a veteran of numerous evidential discovery search assignments producing victories for clients. Although forensic imaging procedures done within our laboratory to protect the authenticity of digital evidence are the most common request, we also deliver skilled service for forensic capture of computer data and hard drive imaging at remote off-site locations, including (under court order) assignments in hostile environments. We have provided depositions and courtroom testimony as expert witness at trial under oath. We have served the diverse client needs of the legal community as well as corporate and individual assignments for a wide range of expert forensic discovery upon computer evidence captured by Micro Com and by other entities.

We are expert in cases involving failed, non-functional hard disk drives. Nearly all computer forensic specialists use only software to perform their services; in this type of case forensic software is completely useless at the crucial initial stage. In this area the forensic community has yet to establish a best-practices protocol for operations (ask for the White Paper). Micro Com Digital Discovery has developed an exclusive approach to this particular area of forensic science. Further, even the best process is likely, we believe, to produce some legal compromise to protection of the hard drive evidence. We have worked controversial assignments where we have witnessed resultant, unintended spoliation of the evidence carried out by forensic providers inexperienced with the esoteric issues having to do with this comparatively unusual condition of evidence. Nonetheless, Micro Com’s research and development has produced sound methods enabling us not only to provide the safest procedure possible with means of discovery fully documented, but almost as importantly, to educate and clarify for attorneys and clients beforehand on the intricacies of evidence protection in this uncommon area of practice.

Micro Com Digital Discovery represents a unique team of three individuals, with decades of experience working together, and even longer experience concentrated within the science and technology of the devices known to the world as hard disk drives, yet each with their own specialized, but overlapping spheres of expertise. This ensemble puts skills, proficiencies and know-how at the disposal of their clients that is difficult to match.

Micro Com was founded in 1989 and has over 17 years experience serving the needs of major corporations and individuals for recovery of critically important computer data stored on all varieties of electronic data storage devices, most commonly hard disk drives. The firm’s technical expertise is backed by continuous immersion within the data storage industry dating from 1977, and includes design engineering, manufacturing, technical support of both disk and tape drives, in addition to data recovery. MicroCom Digital Discovery has been operating since 1998.