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    Helping you to reduce the time to detect, effectively respond to, and rapidly recover from Cyber Security incidents.

    Use Ward Solutions formal digital forensics investigation services to investigate a cyber security incident, determine the what, how, when or if an incident happened. Our investigation and report should also allow you determine the consequences of the incident, e.g. data loss etc. Use our report to remediate the incident and our expert witness services to support any HR, civil, criminal, commercial or regulatory activities that might be necessary as a result.

    When you suffer a security incident, timely, standard based, digital forensics investigation is key to the acquisition and, investigation of all related and available digital evidence. Expert examination, reporting and witness services are critical to drawing the appropriate and objective conclusions and taking appropriate action. Actions may involve specific remediation associated with how the incident occurred or was perpetrated. Furthermore, It may also involve reporting to audits, regulators or boards on the what, how, where, who and when of the incident possibly leading to prosecution or litigation.

    It is really important that these service are provided in an expert, standards lead and objective fashion in order to be accurate, true and fair and to stand up to scrutiny and examination.

    Ward Solutions have a wide range of highly specialised digital forensic services. Use Ward Solutions Digital Forensics investigation services to help you manage any suspected Information Security incidents.

    We provide Digital Forensic and Information Security services to a wide range of national and international blue and green light security services, and to a whole range of financial, insurance, legal, accounting and other sectors.

    Our staff are fully experienced trained and certified Digital Forensics investigators to MSc level and also fully accredited in guidance software encase toolsets.

    Use our services to:

    • Provide initial security incident survey and response services.
    • Advise on how to proceed with Digital Forensic investigation services.
    • Acquire any relevant digital evidence associated with potential or actual Information. Security events in a standard, best practices based forensically sound methodology using recognised digital forensics toolsets to preserve all relevant evidence.
    • Investigate acquired evidence to determine, the “if, what, when, how and whom” of the Information Security incident.
    • Provide digital forensic reports with objective conclusions, supported by the evidence acquired and investigated.
    • Work with your legal, financial or criminal advisors in providing digital forensics expertise, evidence and objective expert conclusions.
    • Provide expert witness testimony where appropriate.
    • Provide mitigation advise and solutions to help prevent further Information Security issues arising in the future.
    These services provide organisations with

    • The full range of digital forensic services to acquire, investigate and report on security incidents.
    • Expert witness services to help with prosecution, defence or litigation activity associated with the security incident.
    • Report and findings that allows an organisation to objectively determine the who, what, when, where, how of a security incident so that they can put in place appropriate organisational and technical measures to minimise the likelihood of the incident occurring again or the impact of such an incident reoccurring on the organisation.


    Our solutions and services as based on industry leading technologies from our industry leading partner in the IRP field such as Microsoft, IBM, NUIX, Guidance Software.

    The service is provided by our endpoint security service offers the following benefits to organisations:

    • You benefit from objective standard based, forensically sound investigation of security incidents with independent reports.
    • Our service enables customers to assess the findings and determine what action is required – e.g. legal action, regulatory action, notification to customers, partners etc.
    • Our service enables customers to put in place organisation and technical measures to reduce likelihood or impact of reoccurrence of the incident.
    • We enable organisations to better defend and likelihood litigation against them arising from a security incident through provision of a report and findings and expert witness if required.
    • Organisations benefit from improved compliance, enabling you to demonstrate to the business, to your supply chain, to customers or to regulators that you have a best in class investigation and incident response handling in place to respond quickly and effectively to security incidents.
    • You benefit from a centralised management of your security with reduced organisational complexity and disruption.
    • Our service is provided at a reduced overall cost.

    Helping you to reduce the time to detect, effectively respond to, and rapidly recover from Cyber Security incidents.


    If your organisation faces a breach, small or big, we investigate the incident and take appropriate steps to minimise the severity and impact of the incident to your business.

    Our experts implement the best practices for incident response

    The services carried out help identify, protect, remove, recover and follow-up so that a comprehensive study is done on what really happened and why?

    ...And then how can we eradicate this kind of incident in the future

    This is followed by and recommended by our team, monitoring the system is very essential so that you are completely free from any future incidents.

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    • Let us provide the services, consultancy or infrastructure as a service to you thereby removing the skills, resources challenges and capital costs burden from you and your business, allowing you to concentrate on what you do best.

      • Provide you with a range of consultancy services as a bundle to service a role or roles in your organisation – e.g. Information Security Office or Data Protection Officer
      • Provide you with the skills and resources you need to supplement your teams, resources and skillsets.
      • Supply you with various security infrastructure(s) and their operation – as a service to address a particulare need – e.g. secure perimeter or secure endpoint thereby relieving you of the capital, training and internal resourcing requirements.
      • Provide you with proactive and reactive security monitoring and management solutions.
      • Provide proactive and reactive support services to ensure the confidentiality, availability and integrity of your Information Systems.
      • Ensure that you meet your compliance and contractual commitments and services levels to your users, partners and customers.
      • Provide you with all of the call and ticket handling, issue resolution, escalation and service level reporting services that an enterprise support service requires.