Tier-1 Digital Forensics · Est. 2009
Providing Tier-1 forensic preservation and volatile data acquisition for global financial institutions. ISO/IEC 27037-compliant methodology — defensible in any jurisdiction.
Practice Areas
Court-admissible forensic imaging and hash verification with unbroken chain of custody. Full compliance with ISO/IEC 27037 digital evidence acquisition standards. Bit-for-bit duplication with SHA-256 cryptographic integrity validation across every acquisition.
ISO/IEC 27037Specialized Out-of-Band auditing and forensic triage for internal threat actors. Volatile memory acquisition, network traffic analysis, and timeline reconstruction — fully isolated from compromised infrastructure to prevent evidence contamination.
Internal Threat OpsExpert witness testimony, legal holds, and comprehensive chain of custody documentation for civil and criminal proceedings. Qualified to testify in federal, provincial, and international courts. Daubert-ready methodology with full disclosure packages.
Expert WitnessAbout the Firm
Vanguard Forensics & Risk was established to address a gap in the market for boutique, practitioner-led digital forensics that operates to the same evidentiary standards demanded by global financial regulators, federal courts, and Fortune 500 legal departments.
Unlike large consulting generalists, our engagements are led exclusively by senior-certified examiners with direct courtroom testimony experience. Every acquisition, analysis, and report produced by this firm is defensible to Daubert standards and admissible in any common-law jurisdiction.
Our methodology integrates ISO/IEC 27037, ACPO Good Practice Guidelines, and NIST SP 800-86 across all service lines. Chain-of-custody integrity is treated as non-negotiable from the moment of first contact with a device or data source through final disposition.
Every procedure is documented, repeatable, and validated against international standards. Our work withstands the scrutiny of opposing counsel, regulatory bodies, and technical peer review.
With operational presence in Toronto, New York, and London, we support cross-border matters involving multiple legal frameworks — including GDPR data handling, US federal discovery rules, and UK PACE compliance.
There are no junior analysts on our engagements. Every matter is handled from intake to report by a senior certified examiner with a minimum of ten years of field experience.
All engagements are structured to maximize privilege protections. We routinely work through outside counsel and understand the architecture required to preserve work-product doctrine in contentious matters.
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