This incident makes one wonder why Guidance Software would be chosen as the main forensic tool and training provider by an organization such as FBI.
My experience with EnCase (Guidance Software?s main creation) showed me a very poor quality product. For a few years now I waited nature to follow its course (?survival of the fittest?) and see either a great improvement in EnCase or see another security company be honored contracts by the FBI. Neither happened. The product is not many steps above the 20$ recovery tools you can download everywhere, plus the crashes and the cost ? which is in the thousands of dollars.
How inexcusable it is for a top security company, involved in all the aspects of forensic investigation ? IT, training, legal issues - to make such a slip? I don?t mean the breach itself, of which there is always a risk (and a forensic specialist should have been the first to fear that!), but the security of their clients? data.
My experience with EnCase (Guidance Software?s main creation) showed me a very poor quality product. For a few years now I waited nature to follow its course (?survival of the fittest?) and see either a great improvement in EnCase or see another security company be honored contracts by the FBI. Neither happened. The product is not many steps above the 20$ recovery tools you can download everywhere, plus the crashes and the cost ? which is in the thousands of dollars.
How inexcusable it is for a top security company, involved in all the aspects of forensic investigation ? IT, training, legal issues - to make such a slip? I don?t mean the breach itself, of which there is always a risk (and a forensic specialist should have been the first to fear that!), but the security of their clients? data.
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