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Computer Forensic Services – Scope and Expertise

What can Vogon offer?
Vogon respects the individual requirements of our customers and we tailor our services accordingly. We can be available 24 hours around the clock working on time critical projects, 365 days per year.

We frequently have forensic teams imaging and investigating in all areas of the world and are able to respond at short notice to meet your deadlines.

Where required, full witness statements written to appropriate standards can be provided. Our procedures ensure that the chain of evidence is maintained whilst your data is in our possession.

The spectrum of work we deal with at Vogon covers the whole range of computer related crime, including financial fraud, paedophile related crime, computer misuse in the office and Internet abuse. The critical data may be anything from a matter of tens of kilobytes of data on a floppy disk to hundreds of gigabytes of data on a RAID array.

If you wish to discuss any specific operational or technical requirements that you may have in complete confidence, please contact us.

Details of Vogon's security policy are included at the end of this page.

Our range of expertise
With our extensive background in disk and tape recovery and our pioneering computer investigation software and hardware, we are able to handle virtually all types and formats of computer media that may be encountered. Where a non-standard or unusual format is found we are able to produce bespoke software tools to meet the individual case requirements.

Tape Formats
 4mm DAT

 8mm Exabyte
 Mammoth
 AIT

 DEC TK
 Digital Linear Tape (DLT)
 LTO

 3480, 3490, 3590
 Magstar (3570)

 1/2" Open reel

 1/4" DC2000, DC3000, DC6000  Rhomat
 Travan, QIC-Wide
 Ximat
 HP 16 & 32 track

 ADR
 TEAC proprietary compact cassettes

Plus many others!

 
Tape Drive Manufacturers
 Colorado
 Exabyte
 Fujitsu
 Hewlett Packard
 IBM
 Iomega
 Irwin
 OnStream
 Quantum
 Seagate
 Sony
 Tandberg
 TEAC
 Toshiba

 Plus many others!

 
Disk Devices and media
 Hard disks
 RAID
 Removable drives
 Floppy disks
 MiniDisc
 CD ROM, CD-RW
 DVD
 Optical (both phase-change and MO)
 Zip
 JAZ
 SyQuest
 Bernoulli

 Plus many others!

 
Interfaces
 SCSI
 IDE / EIDE
 Fibre Channel/FC
 USB
 PCMCIA
 ESDI
 ST506
 IEEE1394 / Firewire
 DSSI
 MCA
 SMD
 IPI

 Plus many others!

 
Operating systems
 Windows NT, 2000
 Windows 95, 98
 NetWare
 DOS/Windows 3.11
 MacOS
 Linux
 OS/2
 CP/M
 UNIX
 HP-UX
 Solaris

 AIX
 VMS
 OS/400
 Plus many others!

 
Tape Backup Formats
 ARCserve
 Backup Exec
 Windows NT Backup
 Retrospect
 Colorado Backup
 Iomega Backup
 Novell SBackup
 UNIX : TAR, CPIO, ufsDUMP,
 HP9000 FBackup
 NetBackup
 Legato
 Palindrome

 AS/400 SAVEOBJ/SAVELIB
 VAX/VMS Backup
 IBM MVS Backup
 Veritas HSM
 Plus many others!

 

... and many, many more ...

Security
Vogon maintains a strict access control system and takes security very seriously.

All staff with access to evidential work have been security vetted to handle computer material which may be used as evidence by the state during prosecution.

The UK headquarters has been fully equipped with a purpose built data recovery laboratory, forensic processing laboratory, fire proof secure storage areas and a Class 100 cleanroom, to provide the optimum environmental conditions for successful data recovery and forensic processing.

We routinely deal with the top companies in the UK and abroad and are happy to enter into any reasonable non-disclosure agreement.