When a dispute turns on a laptop, a phone, a cloud account or a breached network, the record that decides it is digital and easy to lose. Global Digital Forensics preserves that record, finds what the files, messages and logs actually show, and explains it in reports and testimony built for cross examination. Our examiners have examined digital evidence since 1992 and have testified in federal and state courts.
The examiner who preserves and analyzes your evidence is the examiner who writes the report and takes the stand.
Recover deleted files, rebuild document histories and prove who did what on a computer, server or cloud account. Our examiners turn file activity, email and metadata into findings counsel can use in a deposition or at trial.
Collect, process, review and produce electronically stored information on the schedule your discovery order sets. We coordinate custodians, cloud tenants and business systems with your protocol and your production format.
Penetration testing that proves what an attacker can reach, plus 24/7 breach response when an intrusion is already under way. We test, contain, preserve the evidence and retest your fixes.
Find the exploitable gaps across your networks, applications and cloud estate, ranked by business consequence. Your team gets a fix list in priority order and a retest that confirms each closure.
Packet capture, traffic analysis and intrusion reconstruction for enterprise networks, including hotel, cruise line shoreside and port terminal environments where guest WiFi, vendor VPNs and cardholder systems sit close together. We establish what moved, when and from which segment, in the form counsel needs for a Fla. Stat. § 501.171 notification decision.
Server level examination of Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft 365, virtualization platforms and SaaS applications. Built for corporate matters where the evidence is spread across the enterprise.
Extraction and analysis of iPhones, Android devices, tablets and wearables, from logical collection to full file system and chip level acquisition. Messages, location history and app data, documented with full chain of custody.
Counterfeit component detection, die and marking analysis, and electrical characterization for semiconductor disputes, supply chain claims and product liability matters.
Deepfake detection, generated media authentication, AI model audits and training data provenance analysis for disputes where an algorithm or a synthetic file is the evidence.
Event data recorder, ECU, infotainment and telematics extraction for Florida crash litigation and insurance fraud defense. When a staged collision or PIP claim turns on whether the vehicle data matches the story, we produce the acquisition record carriers and defense counsel need to test it.
Chip off extraction, JTAG and UART access, and firmware reverse engineering for IoT devices, smart home systems, drones, industrial controllers and custom hardware.
Forensic response, triage and root cause analysis of cyber incidents in industrial control systems, SCADA networks and critical infrastructure.
Security testing of SCADA and industrial control systems under a safe testing protocol. We test the protocols, HMIs, historians and remote access paths that keep critical infrastructure running.
Architecture, segmentation and remote access review for operational technology, run passive first and inside operating limits your engineers approve. You learn where IT reaches into the plant and how to close it.
Firmware, wireless protocol and cloud backend testing for connected devices, before deployment or after a suspected compromise.
Adversarial testing of LLM applications, machine learning models and AI pipelines for prompt injection, data poisoning and model extraction.
Secure by design reviews of model hosting, data pipelines, access controls and governance for organizations deploying AI systems.
Manual and tool assisted source code analysis that finds security flaws and logic errors before release, and code comparison for trade secret and copyright litigation.
Describe the dispute, the incident or the system, and a senior examiner will tell you which of these services it needs.
Global Digital Forensics has examined digital evidence for counsel and corporations since 1992. Our examiners have testified in federal and state courts, our work has been accepted by courts, and our national practice serves AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 1000 companies. Miami clients get that bench with a local office line and a hotline that answers around the clock.
The examiner who performs the analysis writes the report and gives the testimony, so the person facing cross examination knows the evidence first hand.
Breaches and spoliation risks do not wait for business hours. Call (800) 868-8189 at any hour and a responder starts the preservation plan on that call.
Our Miami office is one of sixteen GDF offices across the United States, so a matter with servers in Atlanta and custodians in Brickell stays with one team and one chain of custody.
The same standard of work we deliver to the largest firms and companies is what a South Florida litigation boutique or family business gets on its first call.
Litigators need findings they can put in front of a judge. Executives need to know what happened and what it costs. Security teams need to know what to fix first. We work for all three.
Every engagement follows the same four stages, so you always know what has been preserved, what has been found and what comes next.
A senior examiner hears what happened, identifies the devices and accounts that matter, and agrees a written scope tied to the questions your matter turns on.
Forensic images and collections are hash verified at acquisition and tracked on a chain of custody record from the first handoff.
Examiners rebuild timelines, recover deleted material and tie every finding to the source record and the method that produced it.
Plain language reports written for a judge, and testimony from the examiner who did the work, prepared for deposition, trial and cross examination.
Miami litigation has its own shape: ports and vessels, hurricanes, cross border money, high rise associations and a hospitality economy. Here is where digital evidence decides those cases, and how we examine it.
Vessel incidents leave a digital record in Voyage Data Recorders, ECDIS logs, AIS transponder history, GPS chartplotters and CAN and NMEA bus telemetry. We extract and authenticate that data to show where a vessel was, how fast it was moving and what the helm did in the moments before an incident, for Jones Act personal injury suits under 46 U.S.C. § 30104, commercial vessel allisions, yacht charter disputes and Limitation of Liability petitions in the Southern District of Florida.
Flooded servers and storm damaged laptops still hold records a claim or a lawsuit needs. The first decision after a flood matters most: leave the equipment off and let an examiner see it before anyone tries a home repair. From there we plan the acquisition, bring in specialist recovery where the damage calls for it, and document every recovered file so it can support the insurance claim or the lawsuit.
Miami is the financial gateway between North and Latin America, and it sees the fraud that comes with it: business email compromise, diverted closing escrow and digital asset laundering. We trace stolen funds and cryptocurrency across correspondent banking corridors, DeFi protocols and unhosted wallets, and deliver blockchain transaction graphs, subpoena support for exchange records and expert declarations for freeze relief and recovery actions in the Southern District of Florida.
Asylum, withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture claims before the Miami Immigration Court often rest on messages and photographs from a respondent's phone. We extract and authenticate WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, call logs and geotagged photographs from damaged or locked handsets, and support them with chain of custody records and examiner affidavits addressed to the corroboration standard of INA § 208(b)(1)(B)(ii).
South Florida's high rise market produces association governance fights, structural integrity litigation under Fla. Stat. § 718.112 and closing wire fraud. We examine property management databases, electronic voting platforms, building management system telemetry and years of board email to show whether an engineering report was backdated, whether an election was manipulated and where a redirected escrow payment went.
Miami is the commercial center of Latin music and home to international sports franchises. We trace master recording leaks, NDA breaches and trade secret exfiltration under Fla. Stat. § 688.001. We also document how and where each recording was made, so counsel can assess it under Florida’s all party consent rule at Fla. Stat. § 934.03 before it goes near a filing.
From Miami Beach oceanfront resorts to Brickell business hotels, hospitality networks are a standing target for payment card and property management system compromise. We triage fast, analyze POS memory and guest WiFi segmentation, and measure the exposure window and the cardholder data actually reachable, which is the finding the 30 day notification decision turns on under Fla. Stat. § 501.171.
Matters that span South Florida and Latin America put custodians, servers and messaging accounts in several countries and languages. We map where the data sits, collect it under the authority counsel secures, and deliver Spanish and Portuguese material processed, searchable and ready for review alongside the English record.
In COMLAB v. Kal Tire, GDF metadata and computer forensics testimony helped establish fabrication and spoliation. Read the public record summary.
Read the COMLAB v. Kal Tire summaryRead the credentials and court experience of the practitioners who lead our engagements, from CISSP and CCE certifications to testimony in federal and state courts.
Meet the GDF examinersThe Computer Forensics Scoping Checklist lists the device, account and deadline details an examiner asks about on the first call. Use it whenever it helps, or simply call with what you have. Browse the full guide library, including the Florida law guides.
Download the Checklist (PDF)Miami matters rarely stay in Miami. When custodians, servers or vessels are elsewhere, examiners from our other US offices collect on site while your Miami team keeps the matter.
