Who We Are

For over a decade, Perlustro, L.P. has been the most widely distributed law enforcement, military, and intelligence agency multifunction computer forensic examination system in the world. By supporting larger agencies with hundreds of users and thousands of other users, Perlustro has helped encourage and expand computer forensics technology to fight crime and secure the well being of people in more than 60 countries. From 2001 to 2008 Perlustro was supported financially by the U.S. Treasury Department and the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office. Adopters and financial supporters of Perlustro’s tools have also included the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Defense Cybercrime Center.

With significant technology development prior to its founding, Perlustro’s core applications evolved from Windows forensics tools, distributed only to national government agencies. These tools were developed during the 1990s at the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office and, prior to that, in military agencies. In 1999 the first wide public release to national agencies took place and, since then, Perlustro has provided its core computer forensics software exclusively to intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies.  There is heretofore been no distribution to a commercial audience.

Perlustro now offers commercial versions of its toolset publicly, no longer limited to the historic groups of users. The forensics suite of tools consists of new technologies for ILook and IXimager in the Windows and Linux development branch. IXimager and ILookPI are widely considered the most advanced tools for forensic imaging and analysis in existence. These tools, now part of the current product matrix, are being utilized by thousands of government users in all 50 U.S. states, in more than 60 countries, and by more than 90 U.S. Federal agencies, for investigations involving terrorism, white collar crimes and child pornography.

The new technology to address traditional computer forensics has now been expanded into both end user and data warehouse-based SDK tools, which allow an economic  change in the dynamics of cost-benefit in the business of eDiscovery as well. Perlustro’s new patent-pending technology will allow the entire production of digital information management to be conducted in low-access, low-spectral forms by using a distributed computing environment for the collection of data in what was once only the domain of “forensics” tools.

For the first time ever, the stakeholders in the data, or either party to a discovery request, can transparently acquire specific information in a form that allows unparalleled speed, efficiency and precision at only a fraction of the costs associated with any other method.

Management Team

President, Elliot Spencer

• Until June 2006, head of computer forensics for the Serious Fraud Office, the UK’s largest white collar crime investigation agency, in London, England
• Previously a software specialist for the British Government Ministry of Defense
• Currently serves as a digital forensics consultant to many of the largest intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the world
• Member of the British Computer Society

VP Engineering, Erik Andersen

• Copyright holder of BusyBox©, uClibc© and Buildroot©  technologies
• Linux Kernel developer, Linux application developer, member of Linux developer community.
• Designer of hardware and software embedded systems using BusyBox© and, uClibc©.

CTO, Jim Baker

• Special Agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of IRS for 31 years, retiring as Chief Technical Advisor to the Director of Electronic Crimes
• Partnered with Microsoft® to develop and implement the standard and primary desktop platform for IRS Criminal Investigation’s client desktop systems.