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Welcome

At Fields Associates, we specialise in the recovery of the digital “fingerprints” left by the routine use of computers. Even erased files can be recovered and examined, ensuring that you have all the evidence available to support your investigation.

Established in 1999, we have earned an impressive reputation in the detection, analysis and presentation of computer evidence in the broadest range of criminal activities. These include fraud, extortion, data theft, child pornography and Internet abuse.

Our clients include legal firms, international banks, blue chip companies, law enforcement and military organisations.

Security

We all take for granted that computerised systems are the only effective way of storing and retrieving information and, more often than not, we blithely continue to take advantage of how well computers run our lives. However, we spare very little thought of the impact of losing information.

Any business or operation that uses computers to store information will probably agree that the value of the information far exceeds the capital costs of the equipment - but how many of us take information security seriously?

Information security is a broad subject and international standards, such as BS7799 and ISO/IEC17799 are in place, but we shall focus on the immediate threat to your IT infrastructure and computerised information from Internet attacks and Cyber Crime - since that is what Click & Protect helps prevent.

Did you know…

• Two thirds of UK businesses have suffered at least one premeditated or malicious security incident, i.e. an unexpected event that could cause damage to the business, such as an Internet attack.
• The average cost of dealing with an organisation's most serious security incident is roughly £10,000 in smaller businesses. The costs in larger businesses are much greater.
• It takes 29 per cent of businesses between two and ten person-days to respond to their worst incident, but some businesses have security incidents that take more than 50 person-days to address.

Source DTI Information Security Breaches Survey

Cyber Criminals are opportunistic. They take the easiest and most convenient route and exploit both well known and newly found flaws with the most effective and widely available attack tools. They count on organizations not taking a pro-active approach to network security, and they often attack indiscriminately, scanning the Internet for any vulnerable systems.