Theft of intellectual property at Trig Enterprises, Inc.

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Author Note This paper is being submitted on November 19, 2015, for Kevin Harris’s ISSC351-Computer Forensics course.

Trig Enterprises, Inc. is an international supplement dietary company and it is located in St. Louis. In 2006, a newly designed and ready to manufacture product was comprised. One of the Trig’s competitors released the very similar product on the market before Trig did. A short time later, it’s found that the competitor’s website was very similar to the Trig’s website. This raised a flag about the company’s 22-year old graphics designer, Kevin K. The CEO of the company, contacted the IT department to monitor his computer/laptop and email accounts, his VOIP phone and wireless devices if there was any suspicious activity. IT department scanned his emails for the last a couple of years. No questionable information found. IT department continue to monitor his devices and emails for about three months. While he was under surveillance, another similar event happened. This time a product on the manufacturing process was compromised. This caused the company millions of dollars. CEO did not a choice but the contact the local police.
After contacting the local police, the police’s compu In 2006, 22-year old graphics designer, Kevin K., suspected to leak the extremely important corporate data to its competitors.
The owner of the company tries to solve the issue with the help of IT.
Monitor activities.
Company computers.
VOIP phones.
E-mail accounts.
Wireless devices.
The owner of the company contacts the local police.
Police refer the matter to the computer forensics division.
Computer forensics specialist Jeff C. is assigned to the case.
The matter is given ‘high priority’ status.
Jeff C. arranges for an interview with the owner.
Jeff C. gets