BlackBerry® Forensics

Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices are one of the most popular cell phones in mid-size to large corporations and government offices. BlackBerry's stranglehold on the corporate email market has held them as the top choice for receiving and managing emails in many companies. Their "push-email" servers allow nearly instantaneous transmission of emails and, as the cell phone is notified by the server when email is waiting and doesn't need to "search" for email periodically, the BlackBerry's battery life has proven to be outstanding.

Increasingly, the BlackBerry has been growing as a platform that does more than simply great email handling. Downloadable programs are allowing people to do more with their BlackBerry devices than ever, including turn-by-turn gps-based directions, actively engaging in social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, sending and receiving IMs/instant messages, sharing photos and videos taken on the phone, viewing and editing documents from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and browsing the internet.

With the increase not only in popularity, but also in capabilities, the BlackBerry has become a treasure-chest of data. With BlackBerry forensics we can retrieve much, if not all, of the data stored on the phone. From the basics like call logs, text messages, emails and photos to the more modern types of data like where the phone's mapping program has received directions to and from, the instant messages sent and received on the phone and the messages sent through social networking sites. The phones contact list, calendars and to do lists can be acquired within minutes with our BlackBerry forensics services.

BlackBerry forensics allows us to forensically image a device in less than 10 minutes. Once the device has been imaged we can search the image for whatever evidence might be in question. If, as the owner of a business, you provide your employees with BlackBerry phones and suspect an employee may be transmitting company secrets or documents to another company, call us. In the time it takes that employee to grab lunch we can image the BlackBerry and tell you whether your suspicions were correct. If your suspicions are correct, and you feel more data may have been transmitted, we also specialize in computer forensics services, allowing us to image and process not only the data on the employee's workstation, but also any relevant data that may reside on your servers.

If you, like many business owners, put your company provided BlackBerry phones back into service with another employee when one employee leaves, we can create a forensically and defensibly sound image of the phone to not only retrieve whatever contacts, emails and text messages might be on the phone, but also to store should that data ever be called upon in court. Once we have imaged the device, it can be wiped clean and put back into service with a new employee.

Call New Jersey Legal today to find out how we can help with your BlackBerry forensics needs!