The first ever ability to recover both existing and fully deleted Exchange Server Email stores encompasses both live Email accounts, as well as Dormant accounts, that still reside at the forensics level in the file system. This engineering is not limited by Exchange Server admin settings or parameters used to configure Exchange Server systems. It includes both Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2005.

The first ever ability to recover Windows EDB search databases in various encryption formats from Vista and above Windows systems will also soon be introduced. The amount of information recovered is literally staggering in comparison to other file system artifacts. This data store alone is more singularly important than any other user related data store on most systems. While it can be impacted by a user, it is seldom found to be the case that Windows Search is not in use. Process information is included, as are on hand email indices, user profile information, and long destroyed and overwritten file information. All have a striking presence in the default settings of Windows EDB, as seen through advanced ILookPI processing.

LaBelle, FL – 1 February, 2009: Perlustro, the leader in Law Enforcement Computer Forensics Tools including ILook and the NIST Certified ILook IXimager, has selected CPR Tools’ PSIClone™ as their direct attached hardware platform for recovering data and files from both corrupted devices and systems, as well as for detailed forensics analysis. The process also includes the creation of images from both functional and failing devices. PSIClone™ was the only tool that exists with its extensive error handling capabilities in addition to major innovations which uniquely allow data retrieval from seriously damaged electronic storage.  Processes which go far beyond the capabilities of software systems alone. CPR Tools perfected this process through research and practical application engineering perfected over decades in the data recovery industry.

By combining the hardware error handling capabilities of PSIClone™ with the extensive Forensic feature set of ILook and ILook IXimager, data recovery technicians and forensics experts now have complete one stop solution which has no equal.  According to John Benkert, Director of Research and Development at CPR Tools, “It truly is a natural and exciting alliance. These products work perfectly together and provide a complete data recovery solution using fast and effective hardware (PSIClone™) and the industry standard for forensic recovery software (ILook™).”

About Perlustro

Perlustro, L.P. is a worldwide trusted provider of forensics software to Intelligence, Military and Law Enforcement agencies. Since 1999 until now, Perlustro has provided its suite of computer forensics software exclusively to these agencies. In partnership with CPR Tools, the Company will now begin offering versions of its toolset for use by the commercial sector.  Perlustro’s current forensics suite consists of ILook and IXimager, which are widely considered the most advanced tools for forensic imaging and analysis. Perlustro’s tools are currently used 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, child pornography and many other crimes. http://www.perlustro.com

Elliot Spencer, President of Perlustro stated that the demand for data recovery was now so great that forensics professionals alone could not meet the emerging commercial demand of end users to recover important business and personal information. Even when backups are regularly scheduled, hardware failures and software corruption can lead to the loss of important business-critical data in particular irreplaceable accounting records. The loss of such data could be devastating to businesses of all sizes. Thanks to the new alliance between Perlustro and CPR Tools, a solid platform for recovering from this type of loss is now available. Perlustro and CPR Tools have decades of experience in dealing with failing storage devices, devices with intransigent mechanical errors and corrupted digital data recovery.

About CPR Tools

CPR Tools, Inc. has been at the forefront of the data recovery industry for over two decades. In that time, the company has developed many of the methods and techniques used by recovery engineers all over the world. In addition to providing data recovery services to public and private sector markets, CPR Tools has trained many recovery technicians in the field. The launch of the CPR Tools’ retail product line was a natural progression for the firm. PSIClone™ is the flagship data imaging and cloning device in a robust line of products which include aids to hardware based recoveries, designed by recovery engineers for recovery engineers. The Company’s data security products are led by the Hammer™ family of data eradication devices. Built for PATA/SATA and SCSI drives, Hammer™ eliminates data in full compliance with NIST 800-88 guidelines.

Data recovery professionals all over the world have increased productivity and profitability through the use of CPR Tools’ complete line of head combs, used as an aid in hardware based data recovery efforts.

The development of must-have tools for data recovery professionals is key to CPR Tools’ product line, but home users benefit greatly from data security products like Hammer™ and BangDisk32™.

http://www.cprtools.net

Both companies know from their own long experiences that the failure rate of storage devices increases every day, and with increased storage capacity growth, the likelihood of data corruption increases proportionally. For the first time the public has a solution which provides both an economical and scientific solution to recovering from data loss, regardless of the underlying software or hardware cause.  While some destruction cannot be overcome, in the majority of cases, these combined tools establish a new threshold in data recovery.

Perlustro is a Gold Certified Microsoft Independent Software Vendor and Partner.

“This new product was developed in direct response to customer input regarding the need for secure, fast and efficient analysis for almost limitless volumes of information,” said Perlustro President, Elliot Spencer, head of computer forensics at the British Government’s Serious Fraud Office, until June of 2006. “The new products and the related tools will allow forensic professionals to integrate solutions and algorithms for use in digital examinations which could never before be imagined, much less executed. Our new forensic and E-Discovery tools will meet – and exceed – our customers’ needs today and into the foreseeable future.”

Never before available to the private sector, the tools produced by Perlustro – in use all over the world for over 10 years, but only to select groups of government, military and law enforcement officials – will now be available to all forensics professionals, both commercial as well as government. The new product line will also include tools to meet E-discovery and other digital investigative needs at a more economical and effective level than those currently available in the marketplace.

Microsoft General Manager Bill Forsyth said, “We’re pleased that Perlustro has selected SQL Server as the core foundation of its e-forensic software. Running on SQL Server 2008, you will be able to consume your data within custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio such as ILookPI and do so with confidence and in a cost effective manner. SQL Server delivers a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs.”

Perlustro, L.P. is the trusted provider of forensic software to governments, military and law enforcement agencies around the world. The company’s current forensic suite consists of ILook and IXimager, which are widely considered the most innovative tools for forensic imaging and analysis. These tools are currently used by tens of thousands of end users in more than 60 countries for investigations involving terrorism, white collar crimes, child pornography and many other crimes.

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New Technology Will Provide Unprecedented Access To Electronic Data And Will Dramatically Increase The Speed Of Digital Discovery

Mountain View, CA and Edmond, OK – August 7, 2008 – The joint partnership of Passware, Inc. and Perlustro, L.P. has enabled the development of a new technology that will allow forensics specialists to access system data indexes on all Microsoft platforms, including Windows Vista. The technology can successfully recover data that, heretofore, has been hidden from forensics investigators.

Passware, Inc., the worldwide leader in password recovery and decryption, created the core new technologies, which leverage the company’s next generation of dynamic decryption solutions across the computer forensics spectrum, including both e-discovery and legal-based forensics research.

Additionally, the companies jointly announced that Passware’s core decryption technology is now embedded in Perlustro’s ILook software forensics products. Perlustro is a leading provider of digital forensics software, with a platform that includes complete forensics and e-discovery suites. ILook is the software of choice for forensics specialists in domestic and international Intelligence, Military and Law Enforcement agencies.

ILook will launch its commercial version toolset later this year, and it will incorporate the full complement of Passware’s decryption technologies, allowing forensics personnel unparalleled access to electronic data.

“This is an exciting development, and one that addresses important e-discovery challenges facing today’s forensics professionals, including processing speed and cost,” said Passware President Dmitry Sumin. “The upcoming line of Perlustro products, which have integrated a newly designed platform of Passware advanced decryption tools, will provide forensically sound access to data and will do so more quickly and less expensively than competing technologies.”

Mr. Sumin said that Perlustro’s forensics and e-discovery solutions will also elevate e-discovery to a completely new level because all users – including those with minimal or no forensics training – will now be able to contribute to the e-discovery process. With other tools in use today, only highly trained forensics professionals can make major contributions to these e-discovery processes, resulting in a more expensive and time-consuming effort.

“Working with Passware’s team, we were able to create a cost effective solution that will dramatically increase the speed of every aspect of digital investigations,” said Perlustro President Elliot Spencer. “By combining Perlustro’s revolutionary forensics toolset with the Passware tools – and with Microsoft’s SQL Server 64, which is a critical component of Perlustro’s ILook toolbase – we created a truly winning combination, and one that we’re excited to share with the government and commercial forensics community.”

About Passware, Inc.

Founded in 1998, Passware, Inc. provides help desk personnel, law enforcement, forensics agencies, IT professionals, business and home users around the world with security tools to ensure data availability in the event of lost passwords. Passware’s top selling products – Passware Kit Enterprise and Encryption Analyzer Professional – are widely used by law enforcement agencies and are included in Certified Computer Examiner training. As a global company, Passware, Inc. has offices in the United States and Europe. Current clients include: Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst and Young, KMPG, PW Coopers, Department of Justice, U.S. Senate, NASA, FBI, IRS and many more, including Fortune 50 companies. http://www.passware.com/

About Perlustro

Perlustro, L.P. is a trusted provider of forensics software to Intelligence, Military and Law Enforcement agencies around the world. Since 1999, Perlustro has provided its suite of computer forensics software exclusively to these agencies. The Company will begin offering versions of its toolset for use in the commercial sector later this year. The Company’s current forensics suite consists of ILook and IXimager, which are widely considered the most advanced tools for forensic imaging and analysis. Perlustro’s tools are currently used 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, child pornography and many other crimes. http://www.perlustro.com/

EDMOND, OK and MEDIA, PA (December 1, 2008) – Perlustro L.P., a worldwide trusted provider of digital forensics software, today announced they have added digital image detection capabilities to their ILook suite of forensics and e-discovery solutions. This will automate the processes of locating and identifying objectionable content stored on computers, while empowering commercial and government forensic professionals to conduct electronic exams more quickly, economically and efficiently. The image detection engine embedded in ILook and related tools, was developed by Guardware LTD, an award-winning global provider of productivity, security and pornography protection software solutions.

For over 10 years, ILook has been the software of choice for forensics professionals in domestic and international intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies. Leveraging this cutting-edge technology, ILook now offers the industry a comprehensive set of tools that automate forensics tasks, significantly lowers exam-related costs, increases accuracy, and delivers an integrated solution of all findings.

“We are committed to incorporating the latest and most innovative technology into all our solutions,” commented Elliot Spencer, President of Perlustro. “This powerful image detection engine will speed the discovery processes for cases involving human form detection in any venue, from illegal image possession to terrorism. These tools give forensic professionals and others in the Ediscovery business the ability to identify far more subject data than any other process. The functionality provides a clear mitigation of the investigative challenges, both psychologically and forensically facing users. The capability of Guardware tools is also integrated into a new Graphic Salvage processing algorithm, one unlike any others in existence, which can uniquely find subject data using totally automated methods.”

“We are delighted to provide Perlustro with powerful image-detection engine to enhance their forensic imaging and analysis solutions,” stated Ian McKinley, President and CEO of Guardware. “By leveraging technology to identify, isolate and report potentially illicit digital images, forensic professionals around the world can more quickly and cost-effectively deliver formative case results.”

About Perlustro

Perlustro, L.P. is a highly trusted provider of forensics software to Intelligence, Military and Law Enforcement agencies around the world. Since 1999, Perlustro has provided its line of computer forensics software exclusively to these agencies. The Company will begin offering commercial versions of its toolset publicly, in addition to the historical customer base, later this year. The Company’s current forensics suite consists of ILook and IXimager, which are widely considered the most advanced tools for forensic imaging and analysis that exist. Perlustro’s tools are currently used 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, child pornography and many others. http://www.perlustro.com

About Guardware

Guardware LLC is a software solution provider committed to developing and marketing innovative personal computer applications that improve productivity and security. Guardware’s products have received numerous awards as well as strong press reviews from technology publications like PC Magazine and Network World. The company offers a full suite of pornography protection systems that monitor, identify, block and deter the display of pornography on personal computers in homes, schools, businesses and other organizations. www.guardwareinc.com

Backbone Announces Partnership With Perlustro L.P.

ILookPI To Contain World’s Largest Digital Steganography Application Hash Set

Fairmont, WV November 6, 2008-Backbone Security, the industry leader in digital steganalysis software, has entered into an agreement with Perlustro L.P. to include hash values of files associated with digital steganography applications in the new ILookPI™ toolkit. ILook forensic tools have trusted and court validated 10 year history of use by law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies around the world, and it is the only analysis tool used by many large government agencies. For the past 6 years, ILook was distributed only by the United States Federal Government, but the new versions of the forensic tools, for the first time, will now be available to the commercial sector.

Hash values from Backbone’s Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) based on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, will be included in ILookPI™ to allow digital forensic examiners to detect file artifacts associated with steganography applications on seized computers or other digital storage media. The functionality will be automated in ILookPI to where the investigator does not have to understand all the details of steganalysis in order to achieve inherent value from the tools. Detecting the presence of a steganography application during the forensic examination of seized media is a very strong indication these stealth type applications were used to hide information that may have evidentiary value in an investigation.

Use of anti-forensic tools to conceal or otherwise eliminate evidence of criminal activity is on the increase. Steganography applications are fundamentally anti-forensic tools that conceal information from examiners who use only the standard examination techniques available in most forensic tools. Essentially, the user hides personal or secret digital information in seemingly innocuous digital files on a computer system.

SAFDB is maintained in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center (SARC) and is widely recognized as the world’s largest commercially available database of steganography applications.

When released, ILookPI™ will be the most widely used law enforcement digital forensic tool with an integrated capability to detect the presence of steganography applications from any digital or seized media.

For more information about ILookPI™, please contact Perlustro at (405) 330-2235 or e-mail inquiries@perlustro.com.

About the SARC

The SARC is a Center of Excellence in advanced steganography research and development established within Backbone Security to create and maintain a national repository of steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures. The SARC has created the world’s largest commercially available hash set exclusive to steganography applications and is the leading provider of world-class forensic tools and techniques for detecting the presence or use of steganography applications and extracting information hidden with those applications.

About Perlustro L.P.

Perlustro L.P. is a privately held computer engineering firm specializing in forensic software development. Perlustro develops the ILook IXimager, the world’s leading computer forensic imaging tool in addition to ILookPI, an analysis toolset. This is now accompanied by a new complete line of EDRM E-Discovery tools which blend value with speed to set new standards in the harsh economics of E-Discovery solutions.

Contact: Jim Wingate, Vice President for West Virginia Operations and Director, SARC
Voice: (866) 401-9392, Fax: (304) 366-9163, or E-Mail: jwingate@backbonesecurity.com.

Edmond, OK -February 1, 2009 – Perlustro L.P., an Oracle partner, today announced that its next generation suite of e-discovery tools will include Oracle Outside In Technology that provides forensic professionals with the ability to access, transform and control files in over 400 native file formats without requiring the applications to be installed by the user.

By incorporating the Oracle Outside In tool, Perlustro customers will have the ability to extract data from e-discovery systems and present it in usable form. This will give forensics professionals maximum flexibility to search and extract data within the ILook tool suite. Perlustro’s new tool suite will be launched later this summer to government and commercial forensic professionals.

“Our customers told us that their forensic work required the ability to search and extract data from unstructured file formats and the next generation of Perlustro’s tools will do just that,” said Perlustro Managing Partner, Elliot Spencer, who served as the head of forensics at the British Government Serious Fraud Office until June 2006. “The addition of Oracle Outside In Technology – along with the incorporation of Microsoft SQL Server, which provides secure, fast and efficient analysis for almost limitless volumes of information – will result in an infinitely better forensic tool than anything currently available to either government or commercial forensic professionals.”

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About Perlustro L.P.

Perlustro, L.P. is the trusted provider of forensic software to governments, military and law enforcement agencies around the world. The company’s current forensic suite consists of ILook and IXimager, which are widely considered the most innovative tools for forensic imaging and analysis. These tools are currently used by tens of thousands of end users in more than 60 countries for investigations involving terrorism, white collar crimes, child pornography and many other crimes. http://www.perlustro.com