Understanding and Reacting Appropriately to Security Incidents

As concerns over protecting customer data and guarding against data leakage increase, organizations are becoming more proactive about how to respond to such incidents, and finding greater need for digital forensic investigations. Many IT organizations are making forensics an integral part of their incident response program and are planning for various incident handling scenarios similar to how they approach disaster recovery.

Akibia’s Digital Forensic Services

A digital forensics investigation is a sophisticated, technology-based approach to identifying malicious or accidental misuse of company IT systems and sensitive customer or corporate data. Such an investigation will evaluate the nature of a security breach, determine the impact on the company, guard against it happening again, as well as provide evidence of misuse if necessary.

Investigations can range from researching malicious attacks from outside the company, employee misuse of corporate assets or data - whether accidentally or for personal gain - and loss of intellectual property via internal or external threats. Akibia’s Forensic Service offerings enable customers to better understand their forensic readiness, and react quickly to any potential security incident. Akibia offers:

• Forensic Readiness Assessment
  Akibia's consultants help companies identify the appropriate policies, procedures and technologies that should be implemented in order to build a security framework that will support a forensic investigation in the future. IT organizations that perform a readiness assessment, and make forensics part of an overall incident response plan, are better prepared to identify issues and react quickly to an unforeseen breach, thereby lessening the impact on the company.


• Digital Forensic Investigation
  In the event of a security incident Akibia performs a complete investigation, leveraging proven best practices to ensure the integrity of the investigation. Results are reported back and data is presented in a format designed to provide the customer with comprehensive evidence. Our report also includes recommendations on how to prevent the incident from happening again.


• Proactive Security Remediation and Forensics Service
  Akibia offers an annual proactive forensics service which bundles in a readiness assessment as well as guaranteed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in response to any security incident that might occur during that period. This helps customers demonstrate their due diligence from a compliance standpoint and ensures a rapid response to minor as well as more significant incidents.

Why Leverage Akibia for a Forensics Investigation?

Leveraging Akibia, rather than internal IT staff, for an investigation of this type provides multiple benefits. A typical IT organization may not be trained in incident response, and therefore may not understand how to conduct an investigation without contaminating or losing evidence. By working with Akibia, a trusted outside partner, our customers ensure the investigation remains confidential and is conducted without bias. Akibia's team brings unique value and expertise to digital forensic investigations:

• Our Security Expertise – With twenty years experience designing and implementing security policies and solutions, our security team has an unmatched breadth and depth of expertise.


• Industry–Certifications – Akibia's consultants are recognized by ISC2 as CISSP certified and certified as SAN GIAC Incident Handlers. This certification means our team is highly trained in incident response and understands how to work with evidence and report results.


• Best–Practice Based Methodology – As experts in digital forensics, Akibia has years of experience and investigative expertise to draw from in conducting these investigations.