digital forensics e discovery founded 1997 headquarters pasadena ca area served worldwide products list encase analytics encase enterprise encase ediscovery encase cybersecurity encase forensic encase portable tableau forensic revenue us 91.9 million 2010 number of employees 371 website guidancesoftware.com guidance software inc. is a public company nasdaq guid founded in 1997 . headquartered in pasadena calif. the company develops and provides software solutions for digital investigations primarily in the united states europe the middle east africa and the asia pacific rim . 1 guidance software has offices in brazil chicago houston new york san francisco singapore united kingdom and washington d.c. and employs approximately 371 employees . 2 best known for its encase digital investigations software guidance software s product line is organized around four markets digital forensics endpoint security analytics cyber security incident response and e discovery . 3 the company serves law enforcement and government agencies as well as corporations in various industries such as financial and insurance services technology defense contracting telecom pharmaceutical healthcare manufacturing and retail . 4 the company operates through four business segments products professional services training and maintenance and operates two certification programs for the encase certified examiner ence 5 and encase certified ediscovery practitioner encep 6 designations . in may 2010 the company completed the acquisition of tableau llc . 7 in february 2012 guidance software acquired casecentral . 8 notable case mentions edit guidance software has been noted in a number of high profile use cases . in 2002 guidance software s encase was used in the murder trial of david westerfield to examine his computers and disks to connect him to child pornography . that same year encase was used by french police to uncover emails from now convicted shoe bomber richard colvin reid . 9 in 2004 encase software was used in the trial of now convicted scott peterson for the murder of his wife laci peterson . computer forensic experts used encase to examine peterson s five computer hard drives which provided valuable evidence that he had shopped online for a boat studied water currents bought a gift for his mistress in the weeks leading up to his wife s death and showed interest in a computer map that included brooks island where his wife was later found . 10 in 2005 american serial killer dennis lynn rader also known as the btk killer sent a floppy disk to fox affiliate ksas tv in wichita kansas . using encase police were able to find metadata embedded in a deleted microsoft word document that was unbeknownst to rader on the disk . the metadata contained christ lutheran church and the document was marked as last modified by dennis . a search of the church website turned up dennis rader as president of the congregation council . police began surveillance of rader . in 2011 following sony online entertainment s multiple security breaches sony said it would be working with data fort guidance software and protiviti to resolve its playstation breach . 11 and in may 2011 after the killing of osama bin laden it was reported that an assault team of navy seals removed computers hard drives usb sticks and dvds from bin laden s compound for forensic analysis . based on a job description supporting the task guidance software s encase is believed to be the tool selected for analysis of the electronic gear . 12 later that year guidance software s encase was noted as a forensic software tool used in the trial of casey anthony following the death of her daughter caylee anthony . 13 investigators used encase to search digital cameras and computers . using the software detective sandra osborne of orange county sheriff s department found correctly and incorrectly spelled searches for the word chloroform . 14 competition edit accessdata arxsys digital forensics framework adf solutions hp autonomy cellebrite f response getdata mandiant a company of fireeye inc. micro systemation paraben perlustro l.p. veriato formerly spectorsoft symantec through its acquisition of clearwell systems technology pathways x ways references edit yahoo retrieved 03 june 2011 guidance software retrieved 03 june 2011 linkedin retrieved 03 june 2011 bloomberg businessweek retrieved 03 june 2011 google books retrieved 10 september 2012 gocertify retrieved 10 september 2012 reuters retrieved 03 june 2011 reuters retrieved 10 october 2012 government technology retrieved 03 june 2011 los angeles business journal retrieved 03 june 2011 time retrieved 03 june 2011 cbs news retrieved 03 june 2011 wftv 9 retrieved 30 june 2011 wftv 9 retrieved 30 june 2011 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title guidance software & oldid 732586434 categories software companies based in californiacompanies based in california navigation menu personal tools not logged 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