The EnCase Portable is a new data acquisition solution on a USB drive. This computer forensics solution enables the user to easily and rapidly boot a target computer to the USB drive, and run a pre-configured data search and collection job. Using the EnCase Portable, even individuals untrained in computer forensics can forensically acquire documents, Internet history and artifacts, images, and other digital evidence, including entire hard drives, with a few simple keyboard clicks.
The device is being targeted at law enforcement, government, law firms and corporate customers but the truth is that anyone using this tiny device will immediately acquire the ability to remove data from computers in a covert manner. The EnCase Portable is expected to ship on a 4GB USB drive, but can also be used on larger USB devices if required. With the use of a USB hub, data can be stored on a USB drive or on other media, such as external hard drives. The product is expected to be available in Autumn 2009.
