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Your business infrastructure is an area open to attacks and illegal use by various sources. Some of these are internal and some external.

One of the greatest threats is the installation of unauthorised software in your business computers. Although it is understandable that some employees will want to make a certain private use of these computers (especially salespersons and people who get their laptops home), it is your responsibility to make sure that laws are not broken.

If an employee installs pirate software or uses a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform to download pirate music and movies, then you may find yourself being liable for their actions, as it is your infrastructure used for the act of piracy and you did nothing to prevent it. If someone downloads child pornography on a computer belonging to you or your company, you may have a lot of explaining to do and a lot of trouble proving you knew nothing about it.

Software maybe installed in your business computers in many different ways. It can be through a CD/DVD disk an employee has inserted in a drive, from a USB key or from the internet.

There is also the possibility that someone installed some software and after they were done with it, they removed it. However traces of its use and internet access may still be there.

If you are suspicious about the security of your business network and the laptops that leave the vicinity of your premises, then Strathclyde Forensics can investigate in a discreet and professional way.

Contact us for an informal no-obligation consultation.