The current business climate has become a breeding ground for adversarial relationships between employers and employees over a wide assortment of contentious accusations that often are fought over in costly civil litigation.  Department managers are continually updating themselves on proper procedures and legal guidelines when it comes to issues of employee disciplinary options and justifiable terminations.  An increasing reliance upon computers and company-wide e-mail systems, not to mention Internet access has only made employee management more of a challenge. 

Some of the more common disputes involving ex-employees and their past employers where data forensics has played a significant role are as follows:

Negligent Hiring Lawsuits Wrongful Termination Lawsuits Sexual Harassment Lawsuits Hostile Environment Lawsuits Racial Discrimination Lawsuits Religious Discrimination Lawsuits Nationality Discrimination Lawsuits Arbitrary Policy Enforcement Termination Lawsuits Unpaid wages/Overtime wages Lawsuits

Where CyberControls, LLC™ has been able to provide its corporate clients with the means to proactively preserve all data activities and records of employee computers, PDAs, network access logs, e-mails (both corporate and personal ISP accounts-AOL, HotMail, MSN etc.), hidden files, deleted files and e-mails for future reference should the need arise.

CyberControls’ Employee Xit™ service eliminates any potential for inadvertent deletion or permanent loss of data or computer activities that may have been recovered and preserved for future defense against unsubstantiated claims against the business client.

All too often after a short period of time following the departure of a bitter ex-employee, the desktop or laptop computer that was used by the same person is re-deployed to a new employee.  The data ‘evidence’ that resided on that same computer’s hard drive is put in harm’s way each and every time that new data files are saved.

Even before an employee is terminated or plans to resign, their manager is likely to be concerned over what may appear to be suspicious computer-related behavior and activities.  A discreet data forensics examination of the subject computer can result in substantiating those suspicions before anymore harm is realized by the employer.  Data forensic findings that support clear violations of corporate computer usage and other policy infractions can also be used to justify an employee’s termination.

For a Free, no-obligation discussion on how CyberControls can assist your company in developing effective information strategies during a merger or acquisition, please call 1-800-862-7671.