Data Collection

Digital Mountain’s team of computer forensics experts with backgrounds primarily in law enforcement, eDiscovery professionals and cybersecurity innovators, as well as career enterprise storage and enterprise application engineers provide our customers with the expertise and the experience to stand above our competitors.

These professionals use the best commercially available tools and have the most up-to-date training available in the industry. For any eDiscovery matter to be done properly, the data collection step is the most important as all work downstream depends on this step to have:

  • Intact metadata
  • Preserved logs
  • Tracked Chain of Custody
  • Verified data
  • Proper documentation

Our experts collect evidence from a variety of storage media such as hard drives, legacy tape systems, CD/DVDs, storage arrays, smart devices and cellular phones. Environments such as Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are all easily navigated. We also have specialists based on cloud-based storage systems such as Box or DropBox, cloud-based email and collaboration systems such as O365, GSuite, Slack, Jira, or Zoom and other cloud-based applications such as Salesforce, Workday, QuickBooks, etc.