erica garrison, cfe, ence

Erica is a Principal and co-founder of Pathway Forensics. Her experience includes performing and overseeing numerous examinations of computers and electronic evidence, providing digital forensics analysis and expert reports, directing large electronic discovery projects, implementing forensics lab quality systems, consulting with clients on matters involving electronically stored information, and conducting fraud investigations. She has provided expert testimony by deposition, affidavit and at trial on fraud and computer forensics. Erica also serves as an independent examiner, and has been appointed as a discovery master by the Court.

Prior to founding Pathway, Erica was the Director of the Lab and started and led the initiative to be the first private computer forensics laboratory accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB). This accreditation demonstrates that a computer forensics laboratory’s operating standards meet quality standards set by ASCLD/LAB. Accreditation criteria include personnel, technical procedures, equipment and physical facilities.

Erica is an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She is a past President of the local chapter of the High Technology Investigation Association (HTCIA) and serves as an inspector for Digital Evidence for the crime Lab accrediting body ASCLD/LAB. She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to digital forensics investigations, electronic discovery, and fraud.