Pro-Active Imaging

DFS provides Pro-Active Imaging™ and re-active services that go hand-in-hand with Litigation Support and potential litigation by offering Pro-Active Imaging™. Pro-Active Imaging™ is a service that gives corporations the ability to freeze time. This is particularly useful in cases where executives and employees possess, or have access to sensitive information; where afterwards may come a need to show what has been done with that digital information.

An example of this would be the fallout after the discovery of the Enron difficulties and Arthur Andersons accounting firms wrongful conduct in which, "Jurors said they based their decision [instead] on Andersen’s alteration of an internal memo that was critical of an Enron earnings release"♦.

These actions caused the jury to levy a substantial monetary penalty against the firm. This memo also caused a significant decision in this case, causing many to lose their careers and others to incur criminal penalties.

These are the types of incidents where Pro-Active Imaging™ may have helped prove the case where one or several individuals may have been responsible for an entire event, instead of causing an entire firm to be penalized.

On a smaller scale, this type of incident could be an executive ordering an employee to do something that is later found to be unethical or contractually incorrect. This act alone could have the potential to cause monetary losses, reputation damages or both if not immediately rectified. Pro-Active Imaging™ may capture these events as employees leave the company and their computers behind, with potential evidence remaining therein. The information contained on the Pro-Active Imaging™ may never need analysis but can be available if questions are ever asked, now or well into the future.