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What is PST Regeneration?

PST Regeneration is used during electronic discovery processing or even during an ESI collection.  A Personal Folder File (PST) is a container file created by Microsoft Outlook which stores email messages and other data (i.e. contacts, calendar entries, tasks, to do list etc.) How it’s done Regenerating PSTs refers to the identification, isolation and often deduplication of electronic mail (email) messages that pertain to a

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What is ESI (Electronically Stored Information)?

ESI (Electronically Stored Information) is the general term for all of the data stored on the hard drives, camera cards, cell phones, GPS devices, digital video recorders, digital answering systems, thumb drives, RAID arrays and any other form of electronic media capable of storing data. Types of Electronically Stored Information: Files – Files are by far the most common arrangement for ESI data. Files (also

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What is an Active File Collection?

Active File Collection refers to the collection of files that are active (not deleted) and pertain to a legal matter or legal hold. In most civil litigation cases, extensive forensic investigations that look at deleted files are unnecessary or too expensive. Thus, most ESI collections are active file collections and/or email collections. How active file collections are performed Active files are those that can be

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ESI (Electronically Stored Information) Software Challenges

A couple weeks ago, I outlined what computer forensics and electronic discovery have in common and how they differ. I’d like to expand on this topic by identifying some common obstacles encountered when using popular computer forensic software for typical electronic discovery projects. A typical computer forensic case may involve: A small quantity of email and/or attachments Recovered files, internet history, and user activity Registry

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Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Collection Software

Each day, corporate IT managers, computer forensic examiners, and litigation support professionals are tasked with performing ESI collections for relevant files which reside in file shares, on client systems, and other popular data sources. The content may include Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, departmental data, individual custodian files, internet logs, telephone logs, or other critical corporate content. Over 4 years ago, Pinpoint Labs released SafeCopy version 2.0 (SafeCopy 2)

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LegalTech New York 2009

We will be attending LegalTech New York and I wanted to invite you to come by and visit our booth. We will be in booth #429 on the 1st floor of the exhibit hall. There are several updates to our software applications that we will be demonstrating, and if you attend, I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you. I’ve been participating in LegalTech

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What is a Forensic Image?

‘Imaging a hard drive’ is a phrase that is commonly used for preserving the contents of a custodian hard drive or server. It can also be used to describe when a custodian hard drive is cloned. It is worth taking some time to understand the differences and the advantages and disadvantages of each process. Forensic Imaging A forensic image or evidence file container (such as

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Recovering Deleted Email

It’s important to understand that deleted email is not recovered or indexed using common litigation support or electronic discovery software. These applications only process email that is still visible within the email software. Some email recovery software can also fall short when restoring deleted email records. Why is that? Because they are designed to undelete email records that still have an entry in the mail

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