Backup-Backup-Backup by Michael Kaye
Why Do I Need To Backup My Computer? The question is this. If your computer happened to up and die one day and you lost all the information on it, would this affect your mood that day? If your answer was no then you would be one of the few that doesn’t need to Backup their computer. ... There are also companies that specialize in Data recovery and can recover Data even from water and fire damaged Hard Drives. ... This type of recovery must be done as soon as possible to the initial erasing of the Data before new files have the chance to overwrite the erased files.

Natural Disaster Causes 3% of Data Loss by Park Oskar
Natural Disasters is the least likely cause of data loss however they can kill an entire company. The eruption of natural disasters and the complete equipment failure are rare but they do occur. Although it accounts for around 3% of all data loss but the magnitude of data loss is highest. ... There are many data recovery software & services companies, which provide data recovery from fire damages. ... • UPS main objective is to provide continuous, sufficient-grade power to electronics possessing valuable information.

Computer Forensics by Alison Cole
Computer forensics is the process of investigating computer systems by collecting and analyzing computer-related evidence and data to determine their illegal or unauthorized involvement in crimes or frauds. This relatively new field is used by law enforcement, military, intelligence agencies,... Not merely confined to computer data recovery alone, computer forensics is a fast-growing investigative technique used by a forensic specialist for retrieving data that has been electronically stored or encrypted on digital media such as a personal or work computer.

Computer Forensics - Finding Out What The Bad Guys Did With Their Computers! by Abbie Frank
Computer forensics is a lot like the CSI investigation programs on the television. Using advanced techniques and technologies, a computer forensic scientist will reconstruct a possible crime using the data that one computer systems. This data may include email trails, files, hidden directories... It's up to the data recovery skills of the forensic computer personnel to capture and restore that data without modification. ... Although it's possible to clean and remove data from a hard drive, most people simply think that a delete key really removed the data.

Planning A Backup And Restoration Of Files For Disaster Recovery by Roger Stuart
The Backup utility creates a copy of data on a hard disk of a computer and archives data on another storage media. Any storage media such as removable disks, tapes, and logical drives can be used as a backup storage. While taking a backup of files, the Backup utility creates a volume shadow copy... Backing up a System State Data System State Data System State data contains critical elements of the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. ... System Recovery In the event of a system failure, the recovery of the system is difficult and tedious for administrators.

What are the Facts about Data Loss? by Lee Morrell
I have been in the data recovery business for many years and have read and heard many “facts” covering the causes, costs and trends of data loss recovery. I have also heard of all the best ways to backup data ensuring total loss of data never happens. ... I don’t know, and I feel most business owners would not know either until data loss actually happened, but please bear with me, more “at what point does data loss threaten survival of my business facts” follow: - 40% of companies in the Cost of Downtime Survey said 72 hours, 21% said 48 hours, 15% said 24 hours, 8% said 8 hours,...

Electronic Discovery Services by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the process of locating and retrieving electronic data. These days, every company is storing its important information in the electronic format, in devices like CD ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, floppy disks, and others. Data is also being sent across the world in electronic... These make data gathering, media restoration, data processing, document production and reporting more efficient. ... Electronic discovery enables the retrieval of such electronic data from the vast amounts of data available.

What is Electronic Evidence Discovery? by Jason Perry
Electronic Discovery (or E-Discovery) refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. Electronic Discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done... Once a data audit has been completed and a computer forensics or data recovery service implemented, then there are the tasks to process the electronic evidence and produce the electronic evidence in a format which the client and lawyers will accept, such as TIFFs or PDFs.

Laptop Security by Tom Goll
As an administrator, and ultimately the person responsible for the information and laptop security within your organization, “Stolen Laptop” is the last two words you want to hear. Unfortunately, statically this is going to happen and if you have not put into place a laptop security policy you... With laptop theft deterrent solutions in place we want to look at recovery and data protection commonly provided by using some form of laptop security software. ... Stealth Signal offers the ability to track and recover a stolen laptop, asset management, encrypted virtual hard drive, remote...

Electronic Data Discovery by Marcus Peterson
In the electronic age, huge amounts of data are being generated and stored electronically. Everyday, millions of electronic data pages are being created, transferred and stored in multiple locations. Most of this data is very valuable and critical, especially for businesses. ... The process of electronic data discovery involves some stages: generation of the inventory list; generation of the list of required data that is to be discovered; creation of validation tools and checklists; data retrieval using special software tools; and validation of the data.