Application of computer forensics in solving employee internet abuse

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Cheryl Mitchell

APUS

September 19, 2021

Term paper outline

Title: Application of computer forensics in solving employee internet abuse.

Thesis statement: This paper aims to examine how computer forensics can be used to solve the issue of employee internet abuse in organizations.

Outline

I. Introduction

· Internet abuse by employees in the workplace has become a major problem in many organizations causing adverse effects to the organization (Krishna et al, 2018).

· Computer forensics can be used to examine, determine, and produce evidence of employee internet abuse (Kranacher & Riley, 2019).

II. Employee internet abuse

· Definition- This is the use of internet services by employees for the wrong purposes, for example, sending confidential information to unauthorized people (Krishna et al, 2018).

· Effects- This can lead to significant losses for the organization due to data loss and increased risks for the company (Krishna et al, 2018).

III. Computer forensics

· These are forensic investigations that recover data from technological devices such as computers to find evidence of misconduct and solve a crime (Joseph & Norman, 2019).

· Various computer forensic tools such as cyfin are available for use in computer crime investigations (Joseph & Norman, 2019).

IV. Using computer forensics to solve employee internet abuse

· During an employee internet abuse scenario, computer forensics can be used to examine and recover evidence of internet abuse (Kranacher & Riley, 2019).

· Through the forensic acquisition of data, computer forensics allows for the identification of any non-work-related activities thus facilitating legal proceedings (Kranacher & Riley, 2019).

· Computer forensics can also be used to investigate misuse of data or company data theft.

V. Conclusion

· Increased adoption of the internet in corporate organizations has created various issues such as employee internet abuse.

· Through computer forensics, this problem can be solved thus preventing the adverse effects that it causes to an organization.

References

Joseph, D. P., & Norman, J. (2019). An analysis of digital forensics in cyber security. In First international conference on artificial intelligence and cognitive computing (pp. 701-708). Springer, Singapore. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1580-0_67

Kranacher, M. J., & Riley, R. (2019). Forensic accounting and fraud examination. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=GnOODwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP12&dq=computer+forensics+in+employee+internet+abuse&ots=PLM2n53DC2&sig=PSdkbCfsA6gEt0pLVmSbjTED-OQ

Krishna, M., Mei, C. Y., Cing, C. W., Yin, L. M., Hui, L. X., Sheng, S. Y., & Lin, T. W. (2018). Internet abuse intention at workplace among employees: A Malaysian perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Letters, 6(4), 156-170. Retrieved from http://www.conscientiabeam.com/pdf-files/soc/73/HSSL-2018-6(4)-156-170.pdf