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Kroll Ontrack accelerates in-house e-mail investigations

Ontrack® Firstview™ enables IT professionals to provide on-demand identification of potential legal issues in electronic information

February 14, 2008

IT professionals and legal counsel can now conduct accelerated e-mail investigations and spot potential legal issues with the launch of an upgraded version of Ontrack Firstview. Ontrack Firstview 2.0 delivers powerful in-house analysis and intelligent reporting of e-mail communications.

Built on the technology from Ontrack® Power Controls™, a software tool which recovers and restores e-mail archives, Ontrack Firstview 2.0 provides a solution to conduct fast and efficient e-mail investigations. Ontrack Firstview, an easy-to-use desktop software developed and now upgraded by Kroll Ontrack, conducts automated e-mail analysis, which can be used in internal investigations and pre-litigation. External and internal e-mail and attachment content can be efficiently reviewed, minimising the cost of electronic discovery through the use of filtering, powerful conceptual searching and timeframe setting.

Version 2.0 employs advanced conceptual searching – which, unlike conventional search mechanisms, identifies terms and concepts related to a keyword and delivers a more comprehensive set of results. It also enhances productivity by enabling multiple concurrent searches. Moreover, the tool now visually represents e-mail topics and themes and how they relate to one another, ultimately revealing connections that might not have been apparent using other review products. The product’s enhanced reporting functions also enable IT teams to produce analytical graphs to demonstrate such connections.

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“Most IT teams and legal counsel conduct e-mail investigations manually with the same systems used to create the e-mails - turning analysis and discovery into extremely laborious tasks,” said Phil Bridge, Managing Director, Kroll Ontrack. “Ontrack Firstview is intuitive and provides a powerful first-line of defence. By having this tool in-house, investigations can be delivered on-demand and with huge time and cost savings.” “Ontrack Firstview’s visualisation technology enables a much more logical investigation process for all e-mail platforms,” Bridge continued. For example, released documents are grouped by theme, which enables users to identify potential links in e-mail communications that ordinarily may not have been spotted.”

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Kroll Ontrack is the largest, most experienced and technologically advanced provider of data recovery products and services worldwide. Using its hundreds of proprietary tools and techniques, Ontrack Data Recovery helps businesses and consumers recover lost or corrupted data from all types of operating systems and media and storage devices through its do-it-yourself, remote and in-lab capabilities.

About Kroll Ontrack Inc. Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers recover, search, analyse, produce and present data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, advanced search, paper and electronic discovery, computer forensics, ESI consulting, and trial consulting and presentation services. Kroll Ontrack is a technology services division of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company. For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its offerings please visit: www.krollontrack.com ; www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk ; www.engeniumsearch.com ; www.trialgraphix.com .

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For further press information and photography please contact: Jade Wilkinson at LEWIS, the PR agency Tel: +44 (0) 161 601 7740 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7802 2627 Email: ontrackuk@lewispr.com Website: www.lewispr.com

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