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Practice Tip: <B>Some Seriously Serious Computer Forensics Tools</b>

By George J. Socha, Jr.
February 01, 2004

In-house and outside personnel are increasingly on the lookout for software tools they can use themselves to work with electronic discovery. A plethora of tools is available today, ranging from software solutions intended to be used only by properly trained computer forensics specialists to ones any of us can load on our machines and begin working with after only minimal instruction.

This article focuses on two packages that fall squarely within the first group: EnCase Forensic Edition, and the Ultimate Toolkit. According to Jeremy Wunsch, Director of Data Forensics at Lucidata, LLC, and president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Information Systems Forensic Association, these are the two leading computer forensics products for the private sector.

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