Full title in original language:
Accreditation of the Digital Forensics Discipline in Perspective
Education level:
University University (18+ years)Topic / subtopic:
Cybercrime Cybercrime investigationTarget audience:
Students,
Teachers / Lecturers
Type of resource:
Publication / Article
Languages:
English
Region of relevance:
Global
Access:
open access
Individual authors:
John Barbara
Publication year:
2012
Published by:
Forensic Magazine
Copyright holder:
© Forensic Magazine
Contact name and address:
Forensic Magazine
Contact website:
Key themes:
cyber, cybercrime, forensic, investigation, cyber-crime, cyber space, cyberspace, forensics, digital forensics
Links:
Short description:
Over the past several years, digital forensic related training and education has expanded rapidly in both the public and private sectors. Concurrently, many public (and some private) laboratories now routinely examine digital media. An all encompassing definition of the discipline is: “the application of specialized scientific techniques to the preservation, recovery, and examination of digital or electronic data which may be used in legal matters.” This includes the examination of computers and their hard drives, cellular telephones, PDAs, digital cameras, smart media cards, CDs, DVDs, USB thumb drives, digital audio and video tapes, and so forth.