A multinational technology company identified anomalous access activity within its advanced engineering division shortly before several senior personnel departed for a direct competitor. The intellectual property at issue included proprietary source code architecture and algorithmic frameworks representing years of research investment and substantial enterprise valuation.
Retained under counsel, GDR conducted a multi-jurisdictional forensic reconstruction spanning endpoint devices, cloud repositories, encrypted collaboration platforms, and remote access logs across three jurisdictions. The engagement required not only reconstruction of technical access patterns but contextual evaluation of economic materiality and competitive sensitivity.
GDR established a defensible evidentiary timeline aligned with federal and international trade secret standards. The analysis distinguished between routine access and high-risk data movement, enabling leadership to quantify exposure with precision rather than speculation.
The engagement informed litigation posture, strengthened intellectual property governance, and reinforced executive oversight of high-value digital assets. The company emerged with both clarity regarding historical risk and improved structural protection against future exposure.