Digital Forensics
CyPro provides a comprehensive digital forensics service designed to investigate, analyse and resolve digital security incidents.
Our team of qualified experts collects and examines digital evidence, uncovers root causes and provides detailed reports for internal, regulatory or legal requirements.
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What is Digital Forensics?
Our digital forensics service is a vital solution designed to investigate and analyse digital incidents, uncovering the facts behind cyber breaches, data theft and other digital threats.
The digital forensics process involves recovering and examining data from devices such as computers, smartphones and cloud platforms to determine how and why an incident occurred. Our certified experts deliver in-depth forensic analysis and tailored recommendations, allowing your business to effectively address incidents without disrupting daily operations.
Challenges Addressed by Digital Forensics
Evidence Preservation
Preserving digital evidence and ensuring that it hasn’t been altered or compromised can be a challenge as it requires highly specialised tools and expertise. If data is mishandled this can lead to it being rendered inadmissible in legal or regulatory proceedings.
Hidden or Deleted Data
Cyber criminals will try to hide their activities by deleting or encrypting data, making it extremely difficult for non-experts to uncover the full scope of an incident.
Complex Data Sources
It is common for modern organisations to rely on a wide variety of devices and systems, including mobile phones, cloud storage, IoT devices and laptops. This diversity complicates the process of locating and analysing evidence.
Timely Forensic Analysis
After an incident, digital forensics must be conducted within a tight timeframe to prevent further damage, recover lost data or to support legal proceedings.
Legal Obligations
Digital forensic investigations often coincide with legal requirements and regulatory standards. Forensics experts must be well-versed in these regulatory frameworks to ensure that evidence is collected and presented in alignment with them and to avoid legal complications.
Lack of Expertise
Many businesses lack the in-house expertise required to conduct thorough digital forensic investigations, risking overlooking critical evidence when taking this challenge on themselves. Having digital forensics specialists on hand ensures that the data collected is accurate and reliable.
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Benefits of Digital Forensics
With the CyPro experts handling the investigation, organisations can uncover the truth behind incidents while safeguarding critical data and operations.
Evidence Recovery
CyPro’s team of digital forensics specialists uses advanced tools and techniques to uncover evidence from various sources, including deleted or encrypted data. Your business can fully understand the scope of the incidents, supporting legal, regulatory or internal investigations with reliable and actionable findings.
Minimised Downtime
Our systematic investigation minimises operational disruption while ensuring critical systems and data are recovered efficiently. By addressing incidents quickly, businesses can mitigate any financial and reputational damage that may occur.
Strengthened Security
Post-incident forensic analysis identifies vulnerabilities in your digital environments that led to the incident. Insights allow you to implement targeted improvements in your security posture while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
Preserving Data Integrity
We ensure that evidence is collected and preserved in a forensically sound manner, maintaining its integrity for legal or regulatory proceedings. Our process protects evidence so it can withstand scrutiny and be admissible in court.
Supporting Insurance Claims
Digital forensic findings can play a significant role in supporting cyber insurance claims, ensuring businesses receive compensation they are entitled to for damages or losses.
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Case Study: UK Insurance Broker
Client Challenge
A UK-based financial services company discovered suspicious activity within its internal systems, leading to the compromise of client account data and transactional records.
The breach risked significant regulatory penalties under GDPR and FCA requirements, as well as erosion of client trust and reputational damage.
The organisation needed an urgent investigation to pinpoint the source of the attack, assess the extent of the damage and implement measures to prevent recurrence.
Our Approach
To address these challenges, CyPro deployed an experienced incident response team:
- Incident Response Manager: Provided operational incident management oversight and led the collection and analysis of digital evidence to uncover the attacker’s tactics.
- Compliance Specialist: Ensured adherence to GDPR, FCA and PCI DSS regulations throughout the investigation and reporting process.
- Forensics Analyst: Provided insights into threat actor activity, ensuring that evidence was collected according to UK legal standards.
Our approach included:
- Evidence Collection and Preservation: Forensic images of affected servers and endpoints were captured to secure data integrity while maintaining a strict chain of custody.
- Incident Analysis: Investigated compromised systems, email accounts, and network traffic to determine how attackers gained access and identify any data exfiltration.
- Remediation Strategy: Identified vulnerabilities in the firm’s infrastructure, such as unpatched software and provided actionable recommendations for strengthening security.
- Regulatory Reporting: Delivered comprehensive documentation detailing the investigation process, findings, and mitigation measures, ensuring compliance with reporting deadlines.
Value Delivered
Regulatory Compliance
Maintained full GDPR and UK DPA compliance, reducing regulatory fines and maintaining client trust.
Business Continuity
Minimised disruption, allowing the firm to maintain operations while securing compromised systems.
Maintained Client Trust
Assisted in crafting clear, transparent communication to reassure clients, preserving long-term relationships.
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Who Needs Digital Forensics?
Every organisation that relies on digital systems or stores sensitive data should have access to professional digital forensic services:
- Financial Service Providers: Banks, credit unions, and other financial service providers manage large volumes of sensitive customer data, including financial transactions and personal identifying information. In the event of a data breach, digital forensics can uncover how the incident occurred, recover stolen data and provide evidence for further actions- helping to mitigate financial losses and maintain customer trust.
- Healthcare Organisations: Under strict regulations like UK DPA and HIPAA, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers handle highly sensitive patient data. We help investigate breaches or unauthorised access to patient data, ensuring compliance with regulations and safeguarding patient privacy.
- E-Commerce Platforms: Online retailers execute massive quantities of transactions daily, making them prime targets for cybercriminals. Digital forensics can trace incidents such as payment fraud, recover lost data and provide insights to bolster security.
- Government Agencies: Government agencies managing national security, public welfare and citizen data are frequent targets for cyber attacks. Digital forensics is essential for investigating breaches, identifying attackers and securing sensitive information to ensure public trust and business continuity.
- Highly Regulated Industries: Industries such as energy, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals operate under strict regulations across multiple jurisdictions. CyPro’s digital forensic service investigates incidents within the organisation, documents findings for compliance purposes and meets global standards such as GDPR, HIPAA and ISO 27001.
- Legal & Professional Services: Law firms, consultancy firms and other professional service providers hold confidential client information that they must safeguard. Digital forensics helps to identify breaches, recover sensitive client data and provide detailed reports to support legal action and compliance requirements.
Who Doesn’t Need Digital Forensics?
- Businesses Without Digital Assets: Small businesses that operate solely in physical surroundings, don’t have online sales or don’t gather customer data, such as neighbourhood coffee shops or bakeries are unlikely to encounter scenarios that require digital forensics.
- Entities Outside Of Regulatory Oversight: Businesses that are not subject to compliance requirements, litigation risks or external audits may not need digital forensics to preserve data or present evidence.
Our Approach
CyPro’s digital forensics process is designed to deliver precise, actionable insights while preserving the integrity of your data. We use a structured approach to uncover the timeline behind the incident, ensuring thorough evidence collection and effective remediation.
Evidence Discovery
Our top priority is to secure and preserve digital evidence in a forensically sound manner. We ensure data integrity while gathering relevant information from your devices, networks and system. This step ensures that all evidence will be admissible in a court of law.
Incident Reconstruction
We analyse system logs, file metadata and network activity to reconstruct the timeline of the incident and understand it further. We piece together the when, why and how the breach occurred to uncover as much detail about the attacker and the data that had been infiltrated.
Advanced Data Recovery
CyPro’s forensic experts work to recover hidden, deleted or encrypted data that may be critical to understanding the scope of the incident. When recovering the data, we maintain its authenticity for further investigation as well as legal purposes.
Root Cause Analysis
We conduct a thorough examination of exploited vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and insider threats to identify the root cause and prevent future incidents. These findings inform our actionable recommendations for improving your business’s overall security posture and retaining client trust.
Compliance Support
We make sure your organisation remains compliant with industry regulations and standards like UK DPA, GDPR, HIPPA and PCI-DSS. We provide detailed, plain-language reports outlining our findings and remediation steps, supporting regulatory requirements with confidence.
Post-Incident Recommendations
Going beyond investigation, our experts deliver strategic guidance to your business. We provide you with tailored recommendations to strengthen your defences, seal gaps in your security and mitigate the risk of any future incidents. This proactive approach aids your organisation’s resilience to prominent cyber threats.
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Your Team
Rob McBride
Rob leads our Cyber-Security-as-a-Service offering at CyPro and is a highly experienced CISO. Starting his career with a successful tenure at Deloitte, Rob has since built a distinguished career in cyber security, notably advising multinational corporations on their cyber resilience and leading security initiatives for financial institutions.
At CyPro, Rob leverages his extensive experience as a CISO across multiple industries including finance, telecommunication, travel, manufacturing, and energy. He is passionate about empowering small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with cutting-edge cyber security solutions to safeguard their operations and drive sustainable growth.
Rob’s expertise and strategic vision are instrumental in delivering tailored, comprehensive security services to our diverse client base.
Additional Consultants
Jordan is an experienced and highly skilled senior SOC analyst who is certified as a GIAC incident handler (GCIH). He specialises in ensuring the efficient onboarding of clients to our SOC service, focusing on deploying detection rules tailored to each client’s specific threat landscape.
Jordan excels in identifying and responding to sophisticated cyber threats, leveraging his deep knowledge of threat detection tools and techniques to provide proactive protection.
Previously serving as a SOC Manager for the UK Home Office, Jordan brings extensive experience in managing large-scale security operations for critical government infrastructure. He is responsible for overseeing 24×7 monitoring, incident response, and the continuous improvement of detection strategies within our 24×7 SOC.
John is a highly skilled Security Operations Manager and a leader within our UK-based Security Operations Centre.
With a strong technical background, John excels at engineering SIEM tools and developing detailed incident response playbooks.
His ability to communicate complex security risks effectively to diverse audiences sets him apart.
John has extensive experience across multiple sectors, including a notable tenure as a Senior Security Analyst for the UK Government.
His expertise and leadership ensure robust security operations and proactive threat management for our clients.
A graduate in Criminology, Elsie also has an MSc in Crime Science with Cyber Crime from UCL. She brings a solid foundation in cyber security principles and practices.
With a research background in human factors in cyber security, Elsie brings a proactive approach to analysing security landscapes. Highly analytical and committed to supporting clients, she excels at crafting solutions to enhance organisational resilience.
Elsie is proficient in identifying and addressing cyber threats, and committed to staying ahead in the ever-evolving digital security landscape, while her analytical skills, honed through experience and academic studies, enable hrt to extract valuable insights to inform strategic decisions.
Enthusiastic and knowledgeable, Elsie strives to be a catalyst for change in security paradigms, and is dedicated to developing innovative approaches to combat emerging threats.
With a degree in Cybersecurity specialising in Digital Forensics, Gianluca brings a robust academic foundation to the table. His educational background is complemented by hands-on experience in a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) environment, where he has honed his skills in delivering Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) services to a diverse clientele across the globe.
In his role, he has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in blue team operations, excelling at identifying, analysing, and mitigating cyber threats. His expertise extends to fortifying organisational security through proactive defence strategies and comprehensive threat management. He is adept at leveraging advanced security tools and technologies to safeguard critical assets and ensure compliance with industry standards.
His commitment to continuous learning and staying abreast of the latest cybersecurity trends and threats underscores his dedication to protecting organisations from evolving cyber risks.
Comparison: Cyber Incident Response vs Digital Forensics
When deciding between a cyber incident response and digital forensics services, it is important to understand the advantages each option offers.
Digital Forensics & Investigation
- Purpose: A thorough investigation into compromised technical IT or data assets in the event of a cyber attack, including the structured collection of evidence. Usually involves highly specialised tools and expertise when performing the analysis.
- Scope: Usually performed towards the end of an cyber security incident, once the issue has been resolved, to identify root causes and how attackers might have infiltrated defences. Often limited to specific controls or IT assets.
- Cost: Cost-effective service for one-time purchases, due to their specific focus.
- Who Is This Best For? Organisations that already have a capable incident response service but who require a one-off investigation from a large or sensitive incident (e.g. internal fraud case going to court).
Cyber Incident Response
- Purpose: Provides a structured and end-to-end response to various types of cyber security incidents to minimise or prevent impacts to business operations.
- Scope: Applies to the entire client company (or group of companies depending on the entity structure) and covers the entire incident from start to finish.
- Cost: Typically on a retained basis, which enables fast responses (reduces the need for protracted and time consuming commercial processes when an incident occurs).
- Who Is This Best For? Organisations seeking to gain reassurance that any and all cyber incidents will be handled promptly and efficiently by qualified experts.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are the 5 branches of digital forensics?
Digital forensics can generally be split into 5 branches: Computer forensics, mobile device forensics, network forensics, forensic data analysis and database forensics.
- What is digital forensics in a nutshell?
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science that focuses on identifying, acquiring, processing, analysing, and reporting on data stored electronically. Electronic evidence is a component of almost all criminal activities and digital forensics support is crucial for law enforcement investigations.
- How long does digital forensics take?
A complete examination of data stored can vary massively depending on size. For example, analysing 100 GB of data can take around 35 hours to examine.
- Why is digital forensics important?
Digital forensics helps organisations uncover the truth behind cyber incidents, recover lost or stolen data, identify perpetrators, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and prevent future security breaches.
- Can deleted files be recovered during digital forensics?
In most cases, forensic tools and techniques can recover deleted, hidden or encrypted files. This is provided that files have not been overwritten by new data.
- What legal considerations are involved in digital forensics?
Legal considerations include ensuring evidence is collected lawfully, following chain-of-custody protocols, and complying with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA when handling sensitive data. Improper handling of evidence could render it inadmissible in court.
- Can digital forensics prevent future cyber incidents?
While digital forensics itself is focused on investigation, the insights gained from an investigation can identify vulnerabilities, inform security strategies, and strengthen defences against future incidents.
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