Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity & Incident Response
When the evidence lives in the data, how it is recovered and handled matters as much as what it shows. Our forensic experts examine devices, cloud environments and enterprise systems, investigate breaches and data loss, and reconstruct events to a defensible evidential standard. From incident response and malware analysis to disclosure and multimedia examination, we preserve, analyse and explain digital evidence with complete independence.
What we cover
- Device, cloud and enterprise system examination
- Breach investigation and data loss
- Incident response and malware analysis
- Disclosure and multimedia evidence
- Defensible acquisition and evidential standards
Forensic acquisition and the chain of custody
In a forensic matter, how the evidence was obtained is often litigated as hard as what it shows. If acquisition was not sound, the findings that follow can be challenged or excluded. Our experts acquire and preserve data to a defensible standard, document every step, and maintain a clear chain of custody from the first image to the final report.
That discipline lets us stand behind our findings when they are tested, and it lets us assess whether an opponent’s evidence was gathered to the same standard, or whether the way it was handled undermines the weight it should be given.
Breach, intrusion and data-loss investigation
When a breach, intrusion or data loss sits at the centre of a dispute, the questions are usually the same: how did it happen, what was accessed or taken, when, and by whom. Our experts reconstruct incidents from logs, artefacts and system records, assess the scope and impact of a compromise, and analyse whether the security measures in place met the standard reasonably expected.
This work supports data-protection and regulatory matters, contractual disputes between suppliers and customers, and the response to ransomware and extortion, where an objective account of what actually occurred is essential.
Device, cloud and enterprise examination
Evidence now lives across phones and laptops, cloud accounts, collaboration platforms and enterprise systems. Our experts examine all of these, recover deleted and hidden data where it can be recovered, and authenticate documents, images and other multimedia where their integrity is in question.
We are careful to distinguish what the data reliably establishes from what is inference, so the court is not offered more certainty than the artefacts can bear.
Presenting defensible digital evidence
Our findings are set out in CPR Part 35 compliant reports and, where required, defended under cross-examination. We also support disclosure and e-discovery exercises, helping legal teams identify, preserve and interrogate the right material efficiently and proportionately, and explaining the technical detail in terms a court can act on.
We have experts in this area
A bench of court-tested specialists ready to be instructed. Profiles are anonymised; full CVs and availability are provided on request.