Digital Forensics Overview

The legal process that grants permission to examine digital devices during a forensic investigation.

The area of digital forensics that focuses on legal procedures and regulations.

The study of evidence in digital form, related to crimes and legal matters.

Digital forensics examines digital devices to find evidence.

Digital Forensics often requires legal justification before conducting an examination.

A specific type of website content that is considered inappropriate or offensive in most workplaces.

A type of employee responsible for financial records and transactions.

The number of times access to a website was denied.

A large number of access denials to pornographic websites, indicating a potential misuse of work resources.

The organization responsible for investigating potential misconduct or fraud.

A set of specific actions taken in a particular order to achieve a goal.

The process of collecting and preserving digital evidence in a way that maintains its integrity and admissibility in court.

The process of analyzing digital evidence to identify patterns, extract information, and determine the sequence of events.

The systematic process of documenting every step taken during a digital forensic investigation.

The process of presenting findings and conclusions of a digital forensic investigation in a clear and concise manner.

The purpose of SWGDE is to connect organizations that work with digital and multimedia evidence.

SWGDE helps organizations involved with digital evidence communicate and cooperate with each other.

SWGDE ensures that the quality and consistency of digital evidence handling are maintained across these organizations.

The forensic community benefits from the collaboration fostered by SWGDE, improving their practices.

SWGDE's mission is to strengthen the integrity and reliability of digital evidence by promoting communication and collaboration.

Files that are essential for the functioning of an operating system.

The process of excluding operating system files during an examination.

The amount of time spent on a task or examination.

Significantly reducing the time spent on a task or examination.

Examining a computer system or data without including the operating system files.

A method of identifying files where the file name extension is not necessarily indicative of the actual file type.

Forensic tools primarily analyze the header of a file to determine its type, rather than relying solely on the file extension.

Forensic tools often flag files where the file header does not match the file extension.

Forensic tools can easily identify files that are mismatched, making them easily discoverable.

A common strategy for hiding files is to change the file name extension but not alter the relevant data within the file.