Cyber Security Experts | Security Investigation Services

At TI IT, our Security Investigation Services comprise 3 main components, each of which is also available as a discreet standalone service, or delivered together as part of a more comprehensive Continuous Threat Exposure Management service, as well as an Incident Response service. The 3 areas of investigation we specialise in comprise:

• Security Incident Investigation
• Dark Web Investigation
• Digital Forensics Investigation

Security Incident Investigation

We specialise in the discreet investigation of sensitive security incidents that can expose organizations to strategic risk such as: Insider Threat activity, fraud, data breaches, intellectual property theft, as well as complex unconventional scenarios involving the highest levels of sensitivity requiring specialised expertise, absolute discretion and care. Our highly qualified, interdisciplinary team of cyber security experts is ready to help you 24/7 in the event of any security incident requiring investigation.

We offering unwavering assistance in these situations. Working with your team, or independently as your needs dictate, we can respond an emergency basis and deploy investigators and advisors to your location as required. At every step of the investigation, we will continuously maintain an overview and update you as required, allowing you to concentrate on your core business. We deploy deep financial crime expertise to detect even difficult-to-trace transactions. Where appropriate, our specialized lawyers can also take over to initiate legal action for you before the responsible authority and through the courts.

• 24-hour hotline: Call us. We are available for you around the clock and offer immediate support. We also guarantee discretion.
• Acute support on site and/or remotely: We stand ready to mobilise our expert investigators to your location as required for immediate, discreet support, and on site analysis after an incident where appropriate. This service includes collecting evidence, as required, and recommending actions.
• Expert opinions submissible in court: We prepare legally admissible expert opinions using proven methods. The findings of the analysis are documented for you, and we will comprehensively inform you promptly of required further steps.

Dark Web Investigation

The dark web represents an often overlooked but increasingly crucial area of risk management and incident response for organizations and individuals seeking to safeguard sensitive information from being accessed and exploited by cybercriminals today. In the same way that organisations can be over reliant on reactive IT security measures to detect active threats, they also tend to over rely on the same tools in investigating security incidents, which can prove too limited in coverage to yield transformative insights.

Where cybersecurity systems such as Intrusion Detections Systems (IDS) detect an attack that involves the exploitation of stolen credentials, for example, dark web investigation can be key to discovering and understanding the origin of the initial underlying breach involved, crucially informing lessons learned and adaptation for future resilience. This is because cybercriminals often use the dark web to sell stolen credentials, financial information, intellectual property, and other sensitive data which can take place, and leave discoverable traces, before any such attack detectable by IDS is executed against an organization.

This also means that dark web investigation can also be utilised as a specialised protective service affording early detection of security breaches before compromised information may be exploited to destructive effect by attackers, earlier, in other words, than conventional cybersecurity measures may detect any threat.

Dark web investigation involves threat hunting by highly specialised cyber security experts using specialised tools to search for specific identifying information as specified by the client. Such information can include personal or corporate email addresses, corporate domains, credit card numbers and many other types, the discovery of which can confirm that a security breach has occurred. Once potential threats are detected, alerts are generated and expert guidance is offered enabling organizations to respond swiftly.

Designed to detect the presence of compromised assets on the dark web, such as account credentials of corporations or of individuals and related sensitive information, dark web investigation provides visibility where IT Security and conventional cyber threat detection solutions, by definition, have none.

This is where dark web investigation as a managed service really comes into its own and provides crucial additional value for clients beyond the scope of what they might achieve independently. The experience and knowledge of cyber security experts in dark web investigation not only affords better threat detection, analysis, and higher confidence reporting, but this in turn informs more effective response and remediation in the form of tailored measures to mitigate the risks associated with the detected threats to realign and strengthen the security posture of the individual or organization going forward.

Digital Forensics Investigation

Digital forensics investigation is a critical discipline in the realm of cybersecurity and law enforcement. It involves the use of specialised tools and techniques by cyber security experts for the identification, preservation, extraction, and documentation of digital evidence of unlawful activity. Such evidence can be crucial in understanding security breaches, solving crimes, and supporting legal proceedings.

At a time of rising Cyber Extortion and Cyber Espionage threats worldwide, digital forensics investigation also offers an increasingly important proactive protective measure today for at-risk individuals, such as Ultra High Net Worth (UNHW) individuals, VIPs, and others at risk of targeting by cybercriminals or state-sponsored threat actors. Digital forensics investigation can provide a key component of Strategic Cyber Risk Management and Mitigation, such as malware discovery and removal from infected devices of targeted individuals.

In cybersecurity more broadly, digital forensics tools and techniques play pivotal roles in incident response and malware analysis. In corporate environments, digital forensics can be used by cyber security experts to investigate data breaches and cases of intellectual property theft for example. Additionally, digital forensics can aid regulatory compliance efforts, helping organizations to ensure they adhere to relevant data protection laws and standards.

Key Phases of Digital Forensics Investigation

1. Identification: This initial phase involves identifying the relevant sources of digital evidence. It includes understanding what data might be relevant to the investigation and where it can be found. Common sources include computers, mobile devices, networks, and cloud services.
2. Preservation: Once potential evidence is identified, it must be preserved to prevent alteration or loss. This involves creating forensic images or copies of the data, ensuring that the original data remains intact and unmodified.
3. Analysis: In this phase, forensic experts examine the preserved data using various tools and techniques. The goal is to uncover hidden, deleted, or encrypted information and to piece together digital activity logs. Analysis often involves timeline reconstruction, keyword searches, and pattern analysis.
4. Documentation: Detailed documentation is crucial throughout the forensic process. This includes logging the steps taken, tools used, and findings uncovered. Proper documentation ensures that the evidence can be presented and defended in legal proceedings.
5. Presentation: The final phase involves presenting the findings in a clear and understandable manner. This can include written reports, visualizations, and, where relevant, expert testimony in court.