Computer Forensics
Computer forensics relates to the application of analytical techniques employed to collect, recover, authenticate, preserve and analyse electronic data for legal purposes.
Put simply, applied forensic computing comprises four main stages, namely:
Identifying sources of digital evidence
Securing and preserving identified evidence
Analysing the evidence
Documenting legally admissible evidence
According to computer forensics world the most likely scenarios in which forensic computing is employed include, the accidential or deliberate unauthorized disclosure of corporate data, employee internet abuse, damage assessment and analysis, industrial espionage and criminal fraud and deception cases.
