Digital Forensics & Investigation
Court-admissible forensic investigation covering endpoint, network, cloud, and mobile evidence with full chain-of-custody documentation.
Digital Forensics & Investigation
When a security incident occurs, the quality of your forensic investigation determines everything that follows — the scope of regulatory notifications, the validity of insurance claims, the strength of legal proceedings, and the completeness of remediation. Poorly conducted forensics that fail to maintain chain of custody, miss evidence sources, or contaminate the evidence record can invalidate subsequent legal action and expose your organisation to greater regulatory scrutiny.
Intelliroot's Digital Forensics team conducts court-admissible investigations across endpoint, network, cloud, and mobile environments. Our certified forensic examiners follow ISO 27037 evidence handling procedures and produce forensic reports suitable for submission to regulators, courts, and insurers.
Evidence Quality Determines Legal and Regulatory Outcomes
Improper Handling Invalidates Evidence
Digital evidence that is collected without maintaining chain of custody, or that is modified during collection, may be deemed inadmissible in legal proceedings. Evidence contamination can result from simply booting a seized device. Forensically sound procedures are not optional when litigation is a possibility.
Volatile Evidence Is Lost Quickly
Running process lists, network connections, decryption keys in memory, and user session state exist only while a system is powered on. Improper incident response that shuts down systems before memory acquisition loses this volatile evidence permanently — evidence that may identify the attacker and their methods.
Regulators Require Forensic Documentation
CERT-In incident reports, GDPR data breach notifications, and sector-specific regulatory filings require documented evidence of the incident scope, affected data, and the technical basis for scope assessments. Forensic investigation provides this evidentiary foundation.
Incomplete Investigation Leaves Persistence
Investigations that focus only on the initial compromise vector without thoroughly enumerating all backdoors, scheduled tasks, and persistence mechanisms leave the organisation vulnerable to re-compromise — often by the same attacker using the same access they established during the original breach.
What We Investigate
Endpoint Forensics
Forensic disk imaging (E01, AFF4), memory acquisition (WinPMEM, AVML), timeline analysis, artifact recovery from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.
Network Forensics
PCAP analysis, flow record examination, firewall log correlation, proxy log analysis, and DNS query reconstruction to map attacker network activity.
Cloud Forensics
AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log, GCP Audit Log analysis. Container and serverless forensics. Cloud storage access log analysis and API call reconstruction.
Mobile & Email Forensics
iOS and Android device forensics (UFED, Cellebrite compatible). Email header analysis, mail server log examination, and business email compromise investigation.
Our Approach
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Evidence Identification & Preservation
Identify all potential evidence sources. Perform forensic acquisition in a legally defensible manner — write-blocking physical media, capturing memory before disk, documenting all acquisition steps.
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Chain of Custody Documentation
Establish and maintain chain of custody for all evidence from acquisition through examination and reporting. Hash verification at each stage to demonstrate evidence integrity.
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Forensic Analysis
Structured examination of acquired evidence to reconstruct attacker activity timeline, identify initial access vector, map lateral movement, and determine data access and exfiltration scope.
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Attacker Attribution & IOC Development
Develop indicators of compromise from forensic findings. Attribute attacker activity to known threat actor groups where evidence permits. Share IOCs with threat intelligence platforms.
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Reporting
Technical forensic report and executive summary. Court-ready report formatted for legal proceedings. Regulatory notification package for CERT-In, GDPR, and sector-specific authorities.
Deliverables
Forensic Investigation Report
Technical report documenting investigation methodology, evidence analysed, findings, attacker timeline, and conclusions — formatted for court admissibility.
Chain of Custody Records
Complete chain of custody documentation for all evidence items from acquisition through examination, with hash verification records.
IOC Report
Structured IOC report (STIX/TAXII compatible) containing all attacker indicators — file hashes, IP addresses, domains, registry keys, and YARA rules — for use in defensive tooling.
Regulatory Notification Package
Pre-drafted notification packages for CERT-In, GDPR supervisory authority, and other applicable regulators — covering incident description, scope assessment, and remediation actions taken.
Request a Security Assessment
Tell us about your environment and security objectives. We'll design a bespoke assessment and deliver a detailed proposal within 48 hours.