Employee data theft, IP exfiltration, and digital-misconduct investigations
The trigger is rarely an abstract “insider threat.” It is a specific incident: a departing employee who left with the client list, source code or trade secrets moved to a personal account, expense or vendor fraud, or misconduct on a company device.
We run the forensic investigation behind it to establish what was taken, when, to where, and by whom, and produce a report that supports termination, a civil claim, a criminal referral, or an insurance recovery.
This work is conducted under company counsel and structured under attorney-client privilege.
Employee-device and account access follows labor-and-employment law and your own policies, especially for represented or contract workers, so the findings hold up and the investigation does not create its own liability.
These matters pair with our digital forensics for attorneys, e-discovery and ESI collection, and cybersecurity expert witness testimony when the investigation has to be defended in court.
Engagements include departing-employee data theft audits, the highest-frequency insider-threat trigger, alongside live-incident investigation and post-incident reconstruction.
Engagements are confidential and structured to begin within 48 hours of the consultation.
Some service tracks are offered at a fixed fee; complex investigations are billed hourly with a clear scope, milestone updates, and a cap agreed up front.
Quinn (Founder and CEO) oversees every engagement and reviews every case before findings leave the practice; the practitioner team executes the technical work under her methodology.
- A direct line to Quinn, the founder, not a sales pipeline.
- Worked in-house by the examiner who scoped it.
- Explainable findings you can verify, with the methodology shown.
What this means for you
- Written scope before any work. You see a written scope covering deliverables, timeline, and price, and you approve it before we begin. You are never billed for work you did not authorize.
- We commit to findings, not outcomes. We tell you up front what the evidence can and cannot establish. Recovery, attribution, and prosecution are decided by banks, platforms, insurers, and courts. We produce the record they act on, and we put that distinction in writing.
- Every case is investigated, not just scanned. A credentialed examiner reviews every case before findings leave the practice. You get a documented investigation to court-admissible standards, not a single automated scan and a one-line answer.
- We will tell you if you do not need us. If a free or simpler step would resolve your situation, whether a police report, an IC3 filing, or a platform's own recovery flow, we point you there first.
How an engagement begins
- Confidential consultation. NDA-protected. 30-60 minutes. Direct conversation, no sales process.
- Scoped engagement. Written proposal with defined deliverables and pricing, a fixed fee where it applies and hourly with milestone caps for open-ended investigations.
- Investigation and findings. Court-admissible standards. Written report you can act on.
Why this work matters
When an investigation can end in a firing, a lawsuit, or a criminal referral, the technical record behind it has to be defensible, collected and documented so it holds up when it is challenged.
Quinn holds 9 active certifications across GIAC, a methodology trusted by Fortune 50 enterprises, defense contractors, and the attorneys who refer to us.
