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The following fictitious example of an employee's suspicious behavior in a work environment is presented to demonstrate how an investigator can use the standard features of OnLineDFS to discover what has been taking place. While this example is fictitious, it accurately represents actual workplace situations that are common today.
Background
An employee of Northland Computing, Steve Quincy, overhears a cell phone conversation involving another employee, Jack Wallace, who is based in the Miami office. While Wallace attempts to keep his voice low so he cannot be heard, Quincy hears enough of the conversation to understand that it relates to a delivery address for goods purchased with a stolen credit card.
After Quincy reports what he heard to his supervisor, the human resources director, in consultation with the company's law firm, decides to investigate Wallace's company-owned computer. The suspicion is that Wallace may be using this computer to store stolen credit card numbers and make purchases or sell the stolen cards via the internet. Frank Miller, who is in the IT security group based in Orlando, is assigned to learn as much as possible about how Wallace is using the company computer, without Wallace's knowledge and without disrupting his normal work routines.
Miller (the Investigator) will need:
Access to the OnLineDFS system
Access to the target system (Jack Wallace's computer)
The UserID + Password combination for both systems
This live investigation of an 'ongoing suspicious activity' will go through the following steps, which also serve as a brief guided tour of OnLineDFS:
