As one of the leading private investigation agencies in Los Angeles, we provide expert support for cases involving digital evidence discovery and data recovery. Our team includes certified computer forensics specialists, mobile device examiners, and vehicle forensics professionals—experts equipped with advanced tools and training far beyond what a traditional private investigator typically offers.
How Kay and Associates Private Investigators in Los Angeles Help with Digital Forensics
Today, computers, tablets, smartphones, and even modern vehicles store extensive information about daily activities, locations, communications, and behavior—often without the user realizing it. Digital forensics allows us to uncover, recover, analyze, interpret, and preserve this critical data. Whether you need evidence for a legal case, a family matter, or a corporate investigation, our digital forensics services deliver the accurate, court-ready information you need.
Our Digital Forensics department can accomplish a wide range of digital forensic services
• Recover deleted messages, pictures, documents
• Analyze web activity
• Scan an entire device for specific keywords
• Produce detailed timeline of device usage
• Gain access to locked device
• Establish what devices connected to a vehicle
• Reveal vehicle events
• Protection against online surveillance
• CyberStalking
• Violations of Acceptable Use Policies
• Online impersonation
• Spyware
• Search for "secret" email addresses
• Crack passwords
• Preserve digital evidence
• Identify weaknesses in other forensic reports
• Determine apps used on devices
• Extract passwords stored on a device
• Retrieve vehicle's navigation history
• Protection against online threats and hacking
• Unauthorized account access
• Intellectual property theft
• Phishing attacks
• Malware
How Kay and Associates Manage Cyber Investigations
Custodian Interviews – Cyber and Digital
Whenever an employee or contractor has been suspected of misappropriating funds or stealing money or company information, Kay and Associates is able to conduct custodial interviews completely focused on the digital aspects of the investigation. Often, a private investigation company is hired to find the "crook" and prove what they did.
The Investigators at Kay and Associates take it many steps further. We have digital forensic specialists that know exactly which questions to ask that coincide with the high-level digital extractions and investigations that we are conducting. Basic interview questions that are general and do not delve into the technical aspect are a waste of the client's time and money.
What Exactly Are Custodian Interviews?
Custodian Interviews are very specific types of interviews. They are discussions or interviews that are conducted with the persons who have been identified as possible custodians of digital information, documents or data that is potentially relevant to a legal proceeding.
Kay and Associates Investigations may actively conduct custodian interviews throughout the forensic process when handling a case. These questions are focused around the legal and technical aspects of the issue being discovered. The consistency and completeness of the questions are what enable our team and efforts to not be denied in legal proceedings.
Forensics Data Collection – Onsite and Remote
Forensic Data Collection may be performed on-site or remotely, and is the first step in the forensic process. This process may include photos, video, recordings, digital footprints, passwords, deleted information and communication records. The forensic experts at Kay and Associates Investigations are ACE, EnCE, CCE, CCO, and CCPA certified.
Data Recovery
When data needs to be recovered from damaged hardware or devices, or restored after corruption or loss, Kay and Associates Investigations provides solutions. Our experts have the ability to recover deleted documents, photos, communication, videos, and any form of deleted data.
Computer User Profiling
Creating a profile of a computer user is a way to see a suspect's personal data in a clear, visually complete picture. Such profiles may also provide context in identifying the activities and unique patterns/excerpts to a specific user.
Different tools and skillsets are a part of Kay and Associates Investigations' approach to computer user profiling, and our methodology has been honed throughout the years as our team of experts stay ahead of the latest technological developments.
Data Preservation & Storage
One of the main focal points during eDiscovery is data preservation. Data preservation is so important to maintain, as it helps document and save important information. Our team at Kay and Associates Investigations works with you to identify, preserve and securely store data that may need to be produced during litigation or pursuant to an investigation.