“D4 is on a very aggressive growth path, with operations, offices and personnel expanding quickly,” said John Holland, CEO and founder, D4. “John’s experience and industry background will add operational excellence to our organization and provide us with guidance for our growth and ongoing success. His depth and knowledge or our industry and business model is an important asset to us as we grow.”

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One issue discussed in depth was eDiscovery and the authentication of digital evidence at trial. This was of particular interest because D4 provides digital forensics and eDiscovery solutions, while InfoPreserve provides cloud-based document management and digital document preservation.

Peter and Jerry discussed the importance of being able to determine from an audit trial when a digital document was created, who had accessed it since its creation, and whether it had been modified since its creation. They noted that in the absence of the ability to establish this information, it can sometimes be nearly impossible to authenticate a digital document for admission into evidence at trial.

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D4, a Rochester, N.Y.-based provider of litigation support and e-discovery software and services, recently hired Cynthia Courtney as the company’s new vice president of discovery engineering.

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No doubt, the cloud-based market for eDiscovery tools has been growing rapidly. D4 LLC, an MSP, offers eDiscovery as a managed service.

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Litigation support and electronic discovery services company D4 has hosted a Web-based electronic discovery platform for area law firms and corporate clients for several years, and is now poised to provide that service to Canadian clients.

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OMAHA (KPTM) — When you give away your old computer or cell phone, you may be giving up more than you think.

A Fox 42 Special Report shows how easy it is for computer-saavy thieves and blackmailers to access and extract private information.

“People can get that information and if it gets in the wrong hands, it can be used against you,” said Peter Coons, of D4 Discovery, a company that specializes in computer forensics.

Experts at D4 Discovery analyzed discarded cell phones and computers that Fox 42 borrowed.

Coons found personal financial data, photographs, business emails and instances, he found data suggesting that the computer’s former owner may have been visiting online sex chat rooms.

Information such as that, Coons confirmed, could be used for blackmail.

Since 2005, more than 345 million documents containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches, according to privacyright.org.

Among the four cell phones examined, Coons found text messages containing passwords from the phone service provider notifying the owner that the password had been changed. He also found lists of contacts on that phone.

“You know there can be some very sensitive information in texts as well,” Coons said.

Experts say, to protect your data you can buy self-encrypting hard drives or you can take your computer to professionals who can magnetically scrub your hard drive. However, the one sure-fire way of making sure no one can access your private information is to have your hard drive shredded.

EDT Recycling in Omaha uses a heavy duty shredding machine to do that. Hard drives are fed into the machine and within minutes the drive is reduced to mangled strips of metal, making data recovery impossible.

Brian Gobbels, EDT Recycling President, said professional recyclers will always issue a numbered Certificate of Disposal for every drive they destroy.

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