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Big growth market for forensic consulting

But is it all legitimate? Probably not, if recent events are any indication. We have a number of foreign organizations using US-based forensics consultants to engage in espionage, both commercial and government. After all, why hire and train your own analysts when there are dozens of US companies who will do it fast, at low cost, and using the latest technologies? All a foreign agent has to do is get physical access to a target laptop for a few minutes, to duplicate the hard drive, then pack it up and send it to a US firm who will cheerfully decrypt it (if needed), analyse it, index it, and send it back all in a nice neat package for less than a grand!

Seriously, up to now a million people have been walking around with untold BILLIONS of dollars worth of sensitive data without much protection. People worry about getting their laptops stolen, but more as an inconvenience rather than as a catastrophic security breach. Now that US Customs agents have started seizing electronic devices to copy and examine the data contents, you can be assured that other governments will start doing the same thing.

Posted by: terry flores   Posted on: 09/16/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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