Description of the Business

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

Note 1. Description of the Business

General

Guidance Software, Inc. was incorporated in the state of California in 1997 and reincorporated in Delaware on December 11, 2006. Guidance and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to herein as “Guidance,” “we,” “our,” or the “Company.” Headquartered in Pasadena, California, Guidance is the leading global provider of digital investigative solutions. Our EnCase® platform provides an investigative infrastructure that enables our customers to search, collect and analyze electronically stored information in order to address human resources matters, litigation matters, allegations of fraud, suspicious network endpoint activity and to defend and secure their organization’s data assets.

Our main products and services are:

Our Forensic Security Suite of products:

EnCase Endpoint Security provides crucial IT cybersecurity functionality to enterprises and government agencies through its incident response and sensitive data discovery capabilities. Integrated with security alerting tools from Hewlett Packard Enterprises (“HP”), Cisco, Blue Coat Systems, and FireEye, EnCase Endpoint Security helps automate the critical first steps in cybersecurity incident response from the moment of a first alert. It rapidly delivers forensic-level visibility of the relevant endpoint data, capturing a snapshot of valuable information from active memory that might otherwise expire which may serve as evidence for potential criminal prosecution.

EnCase Endpoint Investigator provides an investigative platform that enables an organization to search, collect, preserve, and analyze data on the servers, desktops, and laptops across its network. EnCase Endpoint Investigator enables organizations to respond to electronic discovery requests and conduct internal investigations, including those related to human resources or those focused on compliance or fraud. Companies can also collect and preserve data in response to regulator requests or for civil litigation matters.

EnForce Risk Manager is a new data risk and privacy solution. It allows organizations to implement a proactive approach to information governance, ensuring that sensitive data is identified, classified and remediated allowing organizations to reduce their cyber attack surface area, significantly mitigating potential damage from breaches and improving their ability to comply with global data protection mandates.

EnCase Forensic is a forensic investigation solution that enables forensic practitioners to conduct efficient, forensically sound digital data collection and investigations. The EnCase Forensic solution lets examiners acquire data from a wide variety of devices, unearth potential evidence with disk-level forensic analysis, and craft comprehensive reports on their findings, all while maintaining the integrity of the evidence in a forensically sound and court-proven manner.

EnCase eDiscovery is our enterprise-wide e-discovery solution addressing the end-to-end e-discovery needs of corporations and government agencies. The e-discovery product portfolio includes capabilities such as: legal hold, identification, collection, preservation, processing, first-pass review, and early case assessment (“ECA”) review.

EnCase eDiscovery Review is a highly secure, private cloud-hosted, multi-matter review platform with advanced analysis and technology assisted review (“TAR”) functionality, comprehensive production capabilities, and extensive project management and workflow features to enable efficient, effective, and defensible distributed review.

Forensic appliances include write blockers, forensic duplicators and storage devices. Write blockers and forensic duplicators are used to acquire forensically sound copies of digital storage devices such as hard disks and solid state drives.

In addition, we complement these offerings with a comprehensive array of professional, subscription and training services, including technical support and maintenance services to help our customers implement our solutions, conduct investigations and train their IT and legal professionals to effectively and efficiently use our products.

Guidance Software, Inc. 10-Q