Macintosh Forensics

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In this assignment, you assume the role of an employee of the DigiFirm Investigation Company. One of your clients is a small music production company. One day you receive a phone call from Andrea, the owner and president of the music company.

Andrea believes one of her employees, a sound technician, has been stealing intellectual property from the company. She thinks he is copying original music scores and then selling them to upstart musicians, claiming that he wrote them. Andrea checked the employee’s computer the previous night and thinks he has been deleting the files to cover his tracks.

Andrea’s employee uses a Macintosh computer. There are several tools available for recovering files that have been deleted from a Mac, including:

Although all of the tools accomplish the same goal, each has one or more unique features. You should consider the full capability set of each tool when gathering information, and determine which tool would be the best choice for the scenario in this assignment.

You will research three tools that can aid in recovering deleted Macintosh files and write a paper about their capabilities. You must also recommend one product for use in this case and justify your recommendation.

Deliverable:

For this assignment, you are to:

  • Research three tools that can aid in recovering deleted Macintosh files, compare the capabilities and, write a professional report in which you recommend one product for use in this case and justify your recommendation.
  • Your report should be at 3 pages in length. Be sure your report adheres to academic writing standards and APA style guidelines, citing references as appropriate.
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Running head: MACINTOSH FORENSICS

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Macintosh Forensics

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Macintosh Forensics
Data is an important element in every organization’s production process today. The use
of these data is essential in predicting marketing trends, marketing activities, predicting sales,
locating business markets and even getting feedback to what their customers’ desires and expect
of them. Therefore, data storage and security should be a high priority for any organization’s
continuity. However, incidents and accidents happens leading to damage or complete loss to
valuable data. These impacts negatively an organization as it depends on it for decision making
among other reasons like supporting transactions.
Data recovery ceases to be an option but a necessity to mitigate data loss incidences. This
document focus on tools on data recovery for Macintosh operating computers.
The following are the tools reviewed:


MacKeeper Files Recovery



Mac Undelete



Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

MacKeeper Files Recovery
It is a recovery tool for data for computers running on Mac OS.
It consists of the following features:


It scans the hard drive for restorable deleted files

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Restoration of files which were accidentally deleted even though they may have been
removed from Trash



Deep scan capability for ensuring that data restoration becomes complete



Found files preview via quick button for previewing



Full files recovery via a click

Additional features


Disk space freeing
Junk gigabytes of data can be removed



Mac Speed boost

It contains crucial utilities for performance optimization which makes data recovery efficient.


Privacy protection
The tool secures personal data while removing type of files that may jeopardize this
privacy.



Mac clean up
Contents occupying the memory and the processor and are of no importance are cleaned
up.

Cost
The tool exists in demo version which is free and is commercialized from $39.95
Mac Undelete
Has the following key functions:

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Recovers files of different ca...


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