Get help collecting the records you need and understanding what they show. GDF supports South Florida legal and business matters involving computers, phones, cloud accounts and business systems. We can discuss the appropriate collection, examination or review work with you and your legal team.
Forensics, eDiscovery, and incident response, delivered by the examiners who will testify to the work.
Preserve and examine evidence from computers, phones, cloud accounts and business systems. GDF helps legal and business teams understand file activity, communications and other available records, with reports and expert testimony when required by the agreed engagement.
Full-lifecycle ESI collection, processing and production for litigation in the Southern District of Florida and the Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach circuits. We routinely handle bilingual review populations, foreign-custodian collections across Latin America and the Caribbean, and the document volumes typical of condominium association and construction-defect litigation.
Proactive security assessment, threat analysis, and rapid breach response. GDF Miami protects your organization before, during, and after an attack.
Systematic identification of security gaps across your infrastructure. We look for the exploitable gaps, rank them by risk, and hand your team a fix list.
Deep packet capture, traffic analysis and intrusion reconstruction for South Florida hotel, cruise-line shoreside and port terminal networks, environments where guest Wi-Fi, vendor VPNs and cardholder systems sit closer together than anyone intended. We establish what moved, when, and from which segment, in the form counsel needs for a Fla. Stat. § 501.171 notification decision.
Server-level forensic analysis of enterprise IT environments, including Active Directory, Exchange, virtualization platforms, and SaaS ecosystems. Built for complex corporate matters.
Forensic extraction and analysis of smartphones, tablets, and wearables. Logical, file system, and physical acquisitions with full chain-of-custody documentation.
Integrated circuit failure analysis and forensic examination using SEM, FIB, X-ray, and acoustic microscopy for semiconductor disputes and product liability matters.
Forensic analysis of artificial intelligence implementations, including deepfake detection, AI model auditing, training data provenance, and algorithmic bias examination.
ECU, event-data-recorder, infotainment and telematics extraction for Florida crash litigation and insurance-fraud defense. South Florida’s staged-collision and PIP caseload turns on whether vehicle data corroborates the claimed sequence of events, we produce the acquisition record that carriers and defense counsel can put in front of a Broward or Miami-Dade jury.
Chip-off extraction, JTAG/UART debugging, and firmware reverse engineering for IoT devices, smart home systems, drones, industrial controllers, and custom hardware.
Forensic response, triage, and analysis of cyber incidents in industrial control systems, SCADA networks, and critical infrastructure.
Specialized security assessment of SCADA and industrial control systems. GDF Miami tests the protocols, HMIs, and communication pathways that keep critical infrastructure running.
Operational technology environments require a different security approach. Assessing architecture, segmentation and access controls starts with agreed safety constraints. Passive review is preferred where appropriate; any active testing requires authorization, operating limits and a plan for unexpected effects.
Connected devices expand your attack surface. GDF Miami evaluates IoT firmware, communication protocols, and cloud backends to identify risks before deployment or after a suspected compromise.
Adversarial testing of machine learning models, LLM-based applications, and AI pipelines. GDF Miami identifies prompt injection, data poisoning, and model extraction vulnerabilities.
Secure-by-design architecture reviews for organizations deploying AI systems. GDF Miami evaluates model hosting, data pipelines, access controls, and governance frameworks.
Manual and automated analysis of application source code to find security vulnerabilities, logic flaws, and compliance gaps before they reach production.
South Florida matters can involve local devices, distributed business systems and records held outside the region. Start with the evidence question, the people authorized to provide access and the deadline. GDF can discuss a collection or examination plan that fits those practical conditions.
We explain the sources, methods and handling record behind the findings so counsel can assess their use. Legal requirements, expert qualification and admissibility are determined for the individual matter.
Remote and on-site work depend on the sources, access arrangements and available personnel. Contact the team to agree on timing and any travel or secure-transfer requirements.
Discuss who will collect and examine the evidence, who will prepare the report and whether testimony is needed. The handling record should identify transfers and responsibilities when more than one practitioner or location is involved.
Counsel and business teams may need help with disputed files, employee departures, cloud records or security incidents. Start with the decision you need to make and the records available, then agree on work that addresses that question.
Legal, business and technical teams approach the same evidence from different perspectives. We help define the examination, collection or security work needed to address the question.
The engagement connects the technical question to an agreed scope, a documented examination and an explanation of the findings. We identify assumptions and limits alongside the supporting evidence.
We discuss your matter, identify the appropriate specialist and agree on the next step. Tell us about any urgent deadline so availability and timing can be confirmed.
Forensically sound acquisition with documented chain of custody that meets DOJ and court standards.
Examination of the available evidence, with findings tied to the sources and methods that support them and any material gaps explained.
Clear, court-ready written reports and expert witness testimony that withstands rigorous cross-examination.
Tell us where the evidence is located and what your legal or business team needs to establish. We can discuss appointments, remote collection and any authorized on-site work.
Operating from PortMiami and the Fort Lauderdale marine corridor, we extract evidentiary data from marine navigation systems, Voyage Data Recorders and vessel black boxes: ECDIS logs, AIS transponder records, GPS chartplotters, and CAN/NMEA bus telemetry. South Florida maritime counsel rely on our extractions in Jones Act personal-injury suits under 46 U.S.C. § 30104, commercial vessel allisions, superyacht charter disputes, and Limitation of Liability petitions filed in the Southern District of Florida.
Water or storm damage can put storage media and the records on it at risk. Tell us about the equipment, damage and handling already attempted before taking further action. We can discuss assessment, preservation and any specialist recovery requirements with the authorized team.
Miami is the financial gateway between North and Latin America, and it sees the fraud that goes with it: business email compromise, closing-escrow diversion, and digital-asset laundering. We trace stolen fiat and cryptocurrency across correspondent banking corridors, DeFi protocols and unhosted wallets, and deliver blockchain transaction graphs, exchange subpoena packages and expert declarations supporting freeze relief under Fla. Stat. § 817.034 and recovery actions in the Southern District of Florida.
Digital evidence frequently decides asylum, withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture claims before the Miami Immigration Court and at the Krome Service Processing Center. We extract and authenticate WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, call logs and geotagged photographs from damaged or locked handsets, and provide chain-of-custody documentation and examiner affidavits addressed to the corroboration standard of INA § 208(b)(1)(B)(ii) for Cuban, Venezuelan, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Colombian respondents.
South Florida's vertical real estate market generates association governance fights, structural-integrity litigation under Fla. Stat. § 718.112, and title-closing wire fraud. We audit property management ERP databases, electronic voting systems, building management system telemetry and a decade of board email. Counsel engage us to test whether engineering reports were backdated, whether an election was manipulated, and where a redirected closing escrow actually went.
Miami is the commercial center of Latin music, international sports franchises and high-net-worth matrimonial litigation. We handle master-recording leaks, NDA breaches, trade-secret exfiltration under Fla. Stat. § 688.001, and concealed offshore or on-chain assets in equitable-distribution disputes under Fla. Stat. § 61.075 — always screening for Florida's two-party consent recording rule at Fla. Stat. § 934.03 before any audio goes near a filing.
From Miami Beach oceanfront resorts to Brickell business hotels, the region's hospitality sector is a standing target for payment-card and property-management-system compromise. We run rapid triage, POS memory forensics and guest Wi-Fi segmentation analysis, then quantify the exposure window and the volume of cardholder data actually reachable — the finding hospitality counsel need to make the 30-day notification call under Fla. Stat. § 501.171.
For matters spanning South Florida and Latin America, identify the data locations, languages, custodians and authority to collect. Counsel should address transfer restrictions and legal process; the technical scope should specify access, preservation, translation needs and delivery requirements.
See a documented firm-wide expert assignment and the sources describing it. Prior case experience does not promise a result in a new matter.
Read the COMLAB exampleIdentify the technology in dispute, the questions that need examination and the report or testimony required.
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Standards Readiness ChecklistsDiscuss the location of your evidence sources and the timing your matter requires. The engagement plan confirms available personnel, remote or on-site methods and any travel arrangements.
