Month: November, 2006

Digital Forensics Documentation

12 November, 2006 (09:00) | Digital forensics | No comments

One aspect of digital forensics that is often overlooked by a number of folks is documentation. If you’ve ever taken an class in incident response or digital forensics, undoubtedly you’ve heard about the need to properly document your work. Really, the thousand-foot goal with documentation is to provide an audit trail of what actions you [...]

What CSI does right

8 November, 2006 (12:38) | CSI, Digital forensics | No comments

I was at a training class last year and the instructor made a good point about the TV show CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). While the actual techniques/methods/etc. the show uses may not always be accurate with respect to real life (some are, some aren’t), the characters do perform a lot of experiments. If you don’t [...]