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First Responder filling in the case paperwork
First Responder inserting disk into the STATIC POD
Accessing the POD from anywhere, even the garden
A Digital Forensics Company
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There are problems associated with both options currently used above. The first, travelling your staff to the site of an incident, is both costly and slow, especially if the incident is a long distance away. Speedy response may be very important and the quickest you can reach the site may be 24 hours after the occurrence has been notified. The second option, shipping the evidence back to the lab using a point- to- point courier can also suffer from time delays especially f the courier has to fly at some point in the shipping schedule. Using a courier can mean even more delays if you need to wait for a trusted partner to carry the evidence. The price of travelling to site and shipping back can involve considerable costs, as usually the travel is arranged at the last minute so one cannot take advantage of cheaper flights. Cost savingsCalculating the cost savings for this organisation was only part of the benefits of implementing the Remote Forensics solution. The other major benefit for them was the additional quantity of work that could be processed. The savings below were calculated on 5 PODs in local locations with 6 incidents per annum, 5 in medium distant locations and 12 incidents per annum and 5 PODs in long haul locations having six incidents per annum.
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There are problems associated with both options currently used above. The first, travelling your staff to the site of an incident, is both costly and slow, especially if the incident is a long distance away. Speedy response may be very important and the quickest you can reach the site may be 24 hours after the occurrence has been notified. The second option, shipping the evidence back to the lab using a point- to- point courier can also suffer from time delays especially f the courier has to fly at some point in the shipping schedule. Using a courier can mean even more delays if you need to wait for a trusted partner to carry the evidence. The price of travelling to site and shipping back can involve considerable costs, as usually the travel is arranged at the last minute so one cannot take advantage of cheaper flights. Cost savingsCalculating the cost savings for this organisation was only part of the benefits of implementing the Remote Forensics solution. The other major benefit for them was the additional quantity of work that could be processed. The savings below were calculated on 5 PODs in local locations with 6 incidents per annum, 5 in medium distant locations and 12 incidents per annum and 5 PODs in long haul locations having six incidents per annum.
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A summary of the savings made |
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| Actual travel expenses saved per annum | £93,600 |
| Man-hours freed to work instead of travel | 31230 |
| Potential extra chargeable income from staff | £369,000 |
| Number of extra jobs done per annum | 77 |
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Satellite Offices
This DFC has put 15 PODs in its areas of greatest activity. This will enable them to have digital forensic laboratory in each of these locations without the property and set up costs associated with commissioning new facilities. They are also saving the considerable costs of hiring new staff as all the forensics can be handled comfortably from the two current laboratories the DFC runs. This particular DFC has a very clever idea for integrating the cost of the PODs into the budgets for these 15 satellite offices. The DFC is asking each of the 15 offices to cover the cost of their POD, but then when they have a job that needs processing the lab will give a 15% commission back to the satellite office and in this way encourage them to find work in order to cover their costs. ...read another case study
This DFC has put 15 PODs in its areas of greatest activity. This will enable them to have digital forensic laboratory in each of these locations without the property and set up costs associated with commissioning new facilities. They are also saving the considerable costs of hiring new staff as all the forensics can be handled comfortably from the two current laboratories the DFC runs. This particular DFC has a very clever idea for integrating the cost of the PODs into the budgets for these 15 satellite offices. The DFC is asking each of the 15 offices to cover the cost of their POD, but then when they have a job that needs processing the lab will give a 15% commission back to the satellite office and in this way encourage them to find work in order to cover their costs. ...read another case study