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South Florida Experts That Win Cases

Since 1992 we have handled digital evidence for the matters that define South Florida litigation: wire-fraud tracing across Latin American correspondent banks, vessel and shoreside device collections for admiralty counsel, hospitality and cruise-line incident data, and condo association construction-defect records. Our examiners image devices, produce ESI under the Federal Rules and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280, and testify, in the Southern District of Florida, before the Eleventh Circuit, and in the circuit courts of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Whether the matter is a Brickell fund’s SEC inquiry or one phone in a Doral family-law case, the methodology is the same.

24/7 Hotline: 1-800-868-8189
30+ Years in Operation
500+ Expert Witness Cases
16 Global Offices
24/7 Emergency Response
Our Practice Areas

What We Do

Forensics, eDiscovery, and incident response, delivered by the examiners who will testify to the work.

Computer Forensics

Court-admissible imaging and analysis of computers, phones, cloud tenants and enterprise networks, prepared to the evidentiary standard Southern District of Florida judges expect. We work the matters South Florida actually litigates: departing-advisor data theft at Brickell wealth managers, POS and reservation-system records in hospitality disputes, and device evidence in Miami-Dade family and probate cases.

  • Hard disk & storage media analysis
  • Deleted file & email recovery
  • Smartphone & mobile device forensics
  • Internet history & metadata analysis
  • Chip-off & JTAG analysis
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eDiscovery Services

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.

  • ESI collection planning & execution
  • Early case assessment
  • Remote & on-site collections
  • Data conversion & warehousing
  • Expert affidavits & court testimony
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Cybersecurity & Pen Testing

Proactive security assessment, threat analysis, and rapid breach response. GDF Miami protects your organization before, during, and after an attack.

  • Network penetration testing
  • Breach response & remediation
  • Regulation compliance assessments
  • Remote worker security
  • Threat assessment & monitoring
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Vulnerability Assessments

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.

  • Internal & external network scans
  • Web application vulnerability testing
  • Wireless network assessments
  • Configuration & patch audits
  • Compliance gap analysis
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Network Forensics

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.

  • Full packet capture & session reconstruction
  • Intrusion timeline analysis
  • Data exfiltration detection
  • Lateral movement tracing
  • Firewall & log correlation
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IT Forensics

Server-level forensic analysis of enterprise IT environments, including Active Directory, Exchange, virtualization platforms, and SaaS ecosystems. Built for complex corporate matters.

  • Windows Server & Active Directory analysis
  • Exchange & Microsoft 365 examinations
  • Virtual machine forensics (VMware, Hyper-V)
  • Database & ERP system examinations
  • Cloud infrastructure analysis (AWS, Azure, GCP)
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Mobile Device Forensics

Forensic extraction and analysis of smartphones, tablets, and wearables. Logical, file system, and physical acquisitions with full chain-of-custody documentation.

  • iPhone, Android & tablet extraction
  • Deleted text & app data recovery
  • Cloud account forensic collection
  • GPS, call log & communication analysis
  • Cellebrite, MSAB XRY & Oxygen tools
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Integrated Circuit Forensics

Integrated circuit failure analysis and forensic examination using SEM, FIB, X-ray, and acoustic microscopy for semiconductor disputes and product liability matters.

  • SEM & TEM imaging analysis
  • FIB cross-sectioning
  • Counterfeit chip detection
  • Electrical fault isolation
  • Patent litigation support
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AI Forensics

Forensic analysis of artificial intelligence implementations, including deepfake detection, AI model auditing, training data provenance, and algorithmic bias examination.

  • Deepfake detection & authentication
  • AI model audit & bias analysis
  • Training data provenance review
  • Generative AI content tracing
  • NIST AI RMF compliance support
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Automobile (ECU) Forensics

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.

  • ECU & event data recorder extraction
  • Infotainment & GPS data recovery
  • CAN bus traffic analysis
  • Accident reconstruction support
  • Telematics & connected car forensics
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Embedded Systems Forensics

Chip-off extraction, JTAG/UART debugging, and firmware reverse engineering for IoT devices, smart home systems, drones, industrial controllers, and custom hardware.

  • Chip-off & flash memory extraction
  • JTAG, UART & SPI interface access
  • Firmware reverse engineering
  • Smart device & IoT forensics
  • Drone & industrial controller analysis
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OT/ICS/SCADA Forensics

Forensic response, triage, and analysis of cyber incidents in industrial control systems, SCADA networks, and critical infrastructure.

  • PLC and controller forensics
  • SCADA network analysis
  • Water, power, and energy systems
  • CIRCIA and NERC CIP compliance
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SCADA Security Testing

Specialized security assessment of SCADA and industrial control systems. GDF Miami tests the protocols, HMIs, and communication pathways that keep critical infrastructure running.

  • SCADA protocol analysis (Modbus, DNP3)
  • HMI & operator console testing
  • Historian server assessment
  • Remote access gateway review
  • ICS-specific vulnerability scanning
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OT Network Assessment

Operational technology environments require a different security approach. GDF Miami assesses OT network architecture, segmentation, and access controls without disrupting production.

  • OT/IT convergence risk mapping
  • Network segmentation validation
  • Asset discovery & inventory
  • Remote access architecture review
  • NIST SP 800-82 alignment
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IoT Security Assessment

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.

  • Firmware extraction & analysis
  • Wireless protocol testing (BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave)
  • API & cloud backend review
  • Physical interface assessment
  • Supply chain risk evaluation
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AI Security Testing

Adversarial testing of machine learning models, LLM-based applications, and AI pipelines. GDF Miami identifies prompt injection, data poisoning, and model extraction vulnerabilities.

  • Prompt injection & jailbreak testing
  • Model inversion & extraction attacks
  • Training data poisoning assessment
  • AI supply chain audits
  • Red-teaming LLM applications
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AI Security Architecture

Secure-by-design architecture reviews for organizations deploying AI systems. GDF Miami evaluates model hosting, data pipelines, access controls, and governance frameworks.

  • AI/ML pipeline architecture review
  • Data governance & privacy assessment
  • Model deployment security
  • Access control & audit trail design
  • NIST AI RMF & EU AI Act alignment
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Source Code Review

Manual and automated analysis of application source code to find security vulnerabilities, logic flaws, and compliance gaps before they reach production.

  • SAST & manual code audit
  • OWASP Top 10 validation
  • Third-party library risk assessment
  • Secure coding recommendations
  • CI/CD pipeline security review
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Why GDF Miami

30 Years of Expertise That
Stands Up in Court

GDF opened its South Florida practice because the evidence problems here are specific: data that crosses borders before anyone files, vessels and terminals that move, and a hurricane season that destroys the media a case depends on. Our Coral Gables examiners have qualified in the Southern District of Florida and in the Eleventh, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits, and we hold to the same DOJ- and NIST-aligned methodology the firm has used since 1992.

DOJ-Compliant Examinations

All examinations follow Department of Justice recommended standards with strict chain-of-custody protocols, ensuring evidence admissibility in federal and state courts.

24/7 Emergency Response Teams

Strategically located responders can be on-site anywhere in the continental U.S. within hours. Remote response capabilities expand our reach globally.

Local Bench, National Lab

The examiner who images the device in Coral Gables is the examiner who testifies in Miami. When a matter needs capability beyond South Florida, a custodian in São Paulo, a server in Bogotá, a vessel that sailed, the firm’s national and international labs are behind us, and the chain of custody does not change hands.

Who Retains Us in South Florida

Our South Florida work is retained by Am Law 100 firms, Miami litigation boutiques, Fortune 500 companies, regional hospital systems, cruise-line and hospitality operators, and the carriers defending Florida insurance-fraud dockets. Named references are available to counsel under NDA.

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Trusted By

Who Hires GDF Miami

From the SEC to litigation support professionals, law firms to hospitals, GDF Miami has the experience and discretion your matter demands.

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
NASA
Baptist Health South Florida
American Civil Liberties Union
Baptist Health South Florida
Florida Dept. of Corrections
Senior Aerospace
Stony Brook University Hospital
AES Energy
PSE&G
Fortune 100 Corporations
MedStar Health
How We Work

How an Engagement Works

Every engagement follows rigorous, court-tested methodology that preserves evidence integrity from first contact to final verdict.

Engagement & Scope

We assess your matter, identify the right team, and define scope of work within hours, not days.

Evidence Preservation

Forensically sound acquisition with documented chain of custody that meets DOJ and court standards.

Forensic Analysis

Deep technical examination using modern forensic tools to uncover all relevant digital artifacts.

Report & Testimony

Clear, court-ready written reports and expert witness testimony that withstands rigorous cross-examination.

South Florida Practice

The Eight Matters South Florida Sends Us

Coral Gables lab, four-county field response, and examiners who have qualified in the Southern District of Florida and the Eleventh, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits.

Maritime & Admiralty Digital Forensics

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.

Hurricane & Storm-Surge Data Recovery

When a major hurricane strikes South Florida, storm surge and water intrusion submerge servers, NAS arrays and endpoints. Our cleanroom work covers ultrasonic desalinization, micro-soldering and chip-off NAND extraction on saltwater-damaged media. We recover the financial databases, email stores and operational logs that support commercial business-interruption claims, proof-of-loss verification under Fla. Stat. § 627.70131, and first-party bad-faith litigation under Fla. Stat. § 624.155 in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County courts.

International Wire Fraud & Cryptocurrency Tracing

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.

Immigration & Asylum Evidence Corroboration

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.

Condominium, HOA & Real Estate Forensics

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.

Sports, Entertainment & High-Net-Worth Matters

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.

Hospitality & Resort Incident Response

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.

Cross-Border Latin American eDiscovery

Discovery that runs between South Florida and Latin America requires native Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese review, working knowledge of foreign transfer restrictions, and experience with 28 U.S.C. § 1782 applications before the Southern District of Florida. We run defensible cloud and on-premises collections from LatAm parents and subsidiaries, apply diacritic-aware indexing, and deliver productions with declarations authenticating foreign business records under FRE 902(12) and Fla. Stat. § 90.803(6).

Client Testimonials

What Our Clients Say

"Our examiner walked a Miami-Dade jury through the artifact log line by line, in plain English. That's what carried the trade-secret verdict."

Litigation Partner Coral Gables commercial firm

"A named storm took our office offline Friday. Their team was on site Saturday, pulled the RAID, and we met the Southern District production deadline Monday with chain of custody intact."

General Counsel Doral logistics company

"The wire hit a correspondent bank in Panama on a Friday afternoon. They traced the device evidence and had a declaration ready for our Southern District emergency motion."

Partner Brickell financial-services practice

Client quotes above are drafts pending written client approval and are not yet attributable. Named client references are available to counsel on request under NDA.

Our Reach

Offices & Response Teams

With offices and response teams on four continents, GDF Miami can be on-site virtually anywhere in the United States within hours.

Northeast U.S.

  • New York, NY(212) 561-5860
  • Oceanside, NY(516) 784-7800
  • Boston, MA(617) 848-5962
  • Philadelphia, PA(800) 868-8189
  • Princeton, NJ(800) 868-8189
  • Washington, DC(202) 360-4356

South & Central U.S.

  • Clearwater, FL(800) 868-8189
  • Miami, FL(786) 219-1210
  • Tampa, FL(813) 305-7969
  • Orlando, FL(800) 868-8189
  • Atlanta, GA(800) 868-8189
  • Chicago, IL(800) 868-8189

West U.S. & Europe

  • Los Angeles, CA(310) 694-3094
  • San Francisco, CA(415) 413-0192
  • Phoenix, AZ(800) 868-8189
  • Denver, CO(800) 868-8189
  • London, UK
  • Paris, France

Asia & Americas

  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Hong Kong
  • Singapore
  • São Paulo, Brazil
  • Buenos Aires
  • Mexico City

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From cyber breaches and active litigation to proactive security assessments, our team is ready to help: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.