Ludhiana City Scam and Digital Investigation

Amarinder Singh and his family might be having sleepless nights (refer: TimesOfIndia 14th June '07) but it could be an awakening for a new era of digital investigation. Now Chetan Gupta had just one pen-drive where he stored Amarinder Singh and his associated accounts' transactions. And we could hire data forensic teams to cull out the data from the (un)fortunate drive.
Now imagine if Chetan had a network of associates/partners and Amarinder Singh too had a network of accompolices; implying that instead of a few files that can be accomodated in a pen drive we were trying to hunt through millions of documents in 'n' different kinds of formats, implying that we only had an idea of what might have happened and need to figure out more but don't know how. This is not too far from reality. It's already happening in US with E-discovery becoming a major part of any litigation. It has opened doors for a host of vendors (Attenex, CA/iLumin, DOAR, EDDix, Fios, Forensics Consulting, Guidance Software, inData, Interwoven, Iron Mountain, Kroll Ontrack, MetaLINCS, Renew Data, Stellent, StoredIQ, Stratify ZANTAZ) in this space. Gartner estimates this space to grow 30% YoY through 2010. It is time the Indian Legal Sector take note.

Stratify, an e-Discovery technology vendor, in SmartTechie's Top 25 emerging technology companies

Stratify has been growing at over 100% per annum for the last two years and has focussed on providing Legal Discovery, email analystics solution. Stratify seemms to be the only Legal Discovery software Product firm with presence in India (Bangalore), though it is headquartered in the Silicon Valley.

It has recently launched its flagship product -Stratify Legal Discovery Service (SLDS) 7.0.

SmartTechie has chosen Stratify as one of the top 25 emerging technology companies in India.

At last an industry initiative on Data Security Standards

Nasscom wakes up after numerous data security thefts in outsourcing firms located in India including at HSBC resulting in loss of around $400,000

The independent self-regulatory organisation mooted by Nasscom, to ensure data security standards across member-companies, is expected to be named Data Security Council of India (DSCI).