Fortune 500 Utility Provider Using EnCase® Security and Digital Investigation Products

Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID), the World Leader in Digital Investigations™, today announced one of the largest providers of electricity and gas in the U.S. is using EnCase products to conduct internal digital investigations and facilitate incident response in the event of a cyberattack. The nation’s energy grid has become a prime target for cybersecurity attacks. EnCase enables these organizations to proactively hunt down malware, respond to security breaches, and pinpoint internal employee misconduct.

In 2014, 79 hacking incidents targeting energy companies were investigated by the Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. With the heightened focus of attacks on energy companies, the utility company’s incident response and investigative capabilities must be best-in-class.

Looking to conduct efficient, forensically-sound data collection and investigations, the energy company first invested in EnCase® Forensic, the global standard in digital investigations for forensic practitioners. Following the initial success with the forensic product, they invested in EnCase® Cybersecurity which integrates with their network security tools to automatically validate and prioritize threats. EnCase Cybersecurity reduces the time spent dealing with false positives, speeds time to remediation, and ultimately returns machines to a trusted state following a security breach. To further strengthen their security posture, the company also invested in EnCase® Analytics to enable analysis of information culled from endpoints across the network to look for signs of intrusion, locate malware, and identify user policy violations.

“The stakes are very high for utility providers facing cyberattacks and failure means leaving millions of consumers without electricity and gas needed to power their lives—heat, light and access to electronic devices,” said Jay Ackerman, Chief Revenue Officer for Guidance Software. “Guidance Software has delivered the most effective, market-leading security and digital investigations tools to top companies in every industry, delivering insight into intrusions both external and internal.”

Recognized as a Fortune 500 organization, the company is using the following EnCase products:

• EnCase® Forensic –The global standard in digital investigation technology for forensic practitioners who need to conduct efficient, forensically-sound data collection and investigations using a repeatable and defensible process.
• EnCase® Analytics – An endpoint-based security analytics solution that exposes signs of intrusion, behavioral anomalies, and advanced threats across the enterprise.
• EnCase® Cybersecurity – An incident response product that enables your security team to respond quickly to incoming threat alerts to prioritize, investigate, and remediate incidents using endpoint data for context.

Guidance Software was named 2013 market share leader by Gartner for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools in its November 2014 Competitive Landscape Report.

About Guidance Software, Inc.

Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in endpoint investigation solutions for security incident response, e-discovery and forensic analysis. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform, deployed on an estimated 25 million endpoints, is used by more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500, and numerous government agencies to conduct digital investigations of servers, laptops, desktops and mobile devices. Built on the EnCase Enterprise platform are market-leading cybersecurity, IT help desk, and electronic discovery solutions, EnCase® Cybersecurity, EnCase® Analytics, EnCase® Remote Recovery + and EnCase® eDiscovery. They empower organizations to conduct speedy and thorough security incident response, reveal previously hidden security threats or malicious insider activity, recover lost files, perform sensitive data discovery, and respond to litigation discovery requests. For more information about Guidance Software, visit www.encase.com.

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