OpenText EnCase Information Assurance Reviews & Product Details

The way you can perfectly discover the people you are looking for and reach out a lot of them with just ine tool, not one by one. I am super happy to use it and all my team too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the platform has some bugs at connecting with another CRM, sometimes it doesn´t connect well to Google Gmail too so that is sometimes not good for my day to day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relatively easy to use. Training programs available. Automated processes and scripts available for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still requires training that doesn’t come cheap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EnCase is a very effective and robust tool in the field of eDiscovery. We can see that almost 90% of the companies(eDiscovery) have licensed versions of the tool being used in their environment. This can be possible only if the tool gives desired results in minimum amount of time. It is one among the tools whose results are court admissible and are internationally accepted.

Coming to my opinion on the tool, it is very very simple to use and has almost everything required for analysis in a lot more organised manner. The Case Analyzer and EnScript is best part of it. Being a technical person I feel so happy about developing any EnScript I want for regular purpose. The case analyzer gives me a quick over view his/her activities, which in turn helps in making quick decision on deciding time factors for any project. EnCase is even able to handle almost all the encryption. The Reporting also fulfills basic reporting needs. All these resoans totally suported my decision in taking up EnCase Certification. I am really happy with the tool. Thanks to Guidance Software. These guys are amazing.

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Some parts which I would like to add in new versions can be

1) It should be able to support AD1 format of image as usually incident respondents take up FTK Imager for Imaging the collections.

2) It would be better if EnCase highlights the 'Bad Signature' files with some color coding, by default. Color coding can be used in many instances.

3) Creating local files in 'AppData' folder when EnCase Imager is used to for collections.

I hope they will be fixing these issues soon. I am delighted with tool and its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability to gather information from multiple sources across the enterprise, including Sharepoint, local workstations, and file shares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Be very careful when setting up anything in the product (custodians, targets, collections, etc) as there is no easy way to remove or change them if you make a mistake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Familiarity. It is easy for me to do what I need to do in a short amount of time because it is what I have used for the past 7 years.

Functionality. It can hit more of the shares that I want, and is only limited to our own network team's granted permissions, which means legal can bring the hammer down on the network team in order to get what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Software seems bloated at times, struggling to keep up with itself. I understand there is a large amount of data to process, but when there are PST files to process that are password protected, EnCase isn't smart enough to go ahead and remove the password or prompt for the password. Instead it dumps out Exception Lists.

Exception lists. The bane of everything EnCase. Exceptions for everything. Documentation of those exceptions often times takes the longest amount of time in the process before delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many things to like about the tool. It is fairly easy to learn with a fairly intuitive interface. The treelike structure of display of a device is pretty simple, and a lot of the common used items are easily accessible off of the main page. It is easy to deploy servlets in enterprise mode. It is easy to grab and analyze information. There is also a built in "community" of experts and users that are more than willing to help you out as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the past you had to rely on user created EnScripts to do certain things that you needed to do. That has gotten better and there are more built in functionalities with the newer versions. To fully understand how to use the tool to its ability it does require quite a bit of time, training, reading, and studying - although I am guessing that is the case with most forensics tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall features of the program all for fast and accurate collection from a corporate network. The ability to collect from multiple sources such as SAFE, folders, Email (exchange, O365, POP, etc), and cloud drives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IT does have limited O365 abilities in its current version, but an update is promised. Also, there are some areas where editing or deleting the collection would be beneficial without affecting the back end database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use GUI.

If you put the effort into creating report templates, you can ensure everyone's work product has a similar look and feel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn't support popular Linux filesystems like XFS that is now the default on CentOS installs (X-Ways does). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, the best of the EnCase Products is the Nerd look of the tool. It is very technical and i like this. The compatibly of many operation system, file system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For some people, with few knowledge of computer, the Encase probably will be a trick tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The availability to see content in context of where on a system it is found. The searching capability is great due at finding information that is essential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface could use some work there is lots of little things that have to be clicked to get things to work. In the past version it was not so cumbersome. Some times the speed of processing is a bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.