About this Webinar
Can your current collection workflow reliably reconstruct a threaded conversation from a private Slack channel or an eighteen-month-old Teams chat? For many forensic practitioners in Australia, the answer is "no"—not because the data doesn't exist, but because native "legal hold" exports often fail to capture the full metadata chain or ephemeral artifacts.
The Disappearing Evidence Trap is a technical reality where edited messages, deleted snippets, and "off-platform" encrypted chats fall through the cracks of standard IT backups. This session breaks down the forensic roadmap for capturing modern, transient communication in a way that survives the scrutiny of the Federal Court.
Key Technical Takeaways:
1. The Persistence Gap: Analyzing the decay of forensic artifacts in Slack vs. Teams over an 18-month horizon.
2. Export vs. Acquisition: Why native vendor tools (e.g., M365 Purview) may be legally insufficient for high-stakes forensic validation.
3. The Encryption Wall: Forensic methodologies for handling "Shadow IT" apps within the Australian regulatory framework.
Presenters
Exterro Marketing
Ashish Shinde
Regional Sales Director - ANZ & Pacific Islands
Ashish leads the regional strategy for Exterro across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Exterro is the industry leader in Legal GRC, providing the only platform that unifies Legal Operations, Digital Forensics, and Data Privacy. Ashish brings over 17 years of experience in the technology sector, with a deep specialization in SaaS and enterprise communications. Prior to joining Exterro, he held leadership roles at Headstrong Capital Markets (Genpact) and HP Poly, where he focused on bridging the gap between complex infrastructure and cloud-based collaboration tools (with Microsoft). He now applies that same logic to the Legal GRC market, helping government agencies and corporations modernize their digital forensics and data risk workflows to meet the demands of a changing regulatory landscape.
Laiba Siraj
Consultant
Laiba is a Consultant with KPMG Australia's forensic practice, focused on digital forensics and e-discovery in the Australian enterprise context. She brings over four years of investigative experience across data breach analysis, forensic imaging, and digital media examinations. She holds a Master's in Digital Forensics, is currently pursuing a Master's in Cybersecurity at RMIT University, and is an EC-Council Certified Incident Handler and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.