SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE DATA

摘要

A system and method for automatically locating (403), identifying, andcollecting (404) electronic evidence data stored in a number of computers. Inone embodiment, a method of the present invention collects electronic evidencedata from a plurality of computers (404) and stores the collected data on aserver (404). The method first provides an agent software application to theplurality of computers (401). The agent software application is configured andarranged with predefined criteria that allows the agent software applicationto identify data that is characteristic of electronic evidence. The agentsoftware application is also configured and arranged to transmit theidentified data to the server. In response to receiving the identified data,the server stores the identified data on a memory device of the server.