The most common scenario we investigate is that of Intellectual Property (IP) Theft, where an employee (or group thereof) unlawfully uses a company's IP for their own personal gain or professional advantage.  

Common targets for IP theft are customer/lead lists, designs, research and development, contractual/pricing information, company secrets or other valuable documentation.

Have you considered examining your leaving employee's computers/phones analysed to detect such occurances ?   Especially those going to work for a direct competitor ?

It is very simple for an employee to take a copy of your company's IP, a USB Memory Stick or Portable Hard Drive are most common, followed by E-mail attachments and Cloud Storage (such as Google Drive or Dropbox).

The majority of digital IP theft leaves behind a series of hidden artefacts (tracks) on the computer or device used to steal or store said.

We specialise in locating, preserving and presenting these artefacts - leaving the suspect employee zero room for manoeuvre, in the face of overwhelming evidence and subsequent litigation.

See our Employee Exit Diligence Checks service below, for more information.