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Week 14 Discussion-Digital Forensics

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A digital forensics professional must know basic IT skills, understand computer architecture and networking, and have analytical and investigative skills, as well as strong attention to detail. Why do think all of these skills are necessary? Please explain.

Digital forensics is the act of preserving, identifying, extracting, and documenting evidence from computers to be used in a court of law later. It involves retrieving evidence from digital media like computers, phones, or networks. Digital forensics exists due to failed cyber security tactics. Digital forensics helps track hackers, retrieve stolen data, incident investigation processes, and provide the digital evidence retrieved (Le-Khac, 2019).

A digital forensics professional must possess some necessary skills to retrieve this computer evidence required. He/she must possess suitable digital devices and technical concepts understanding and also have computer systems experience. One has to possess the efficient technical knowledge to determine and respond to security breaches and network hacks. Computer networking knowledge is vital for a forensics investigator. The forensic expert's connectivity knowledge and networking concepts should be top-notch since the investigation will be widespread to every LAN system connected (Garrison, 2010).

A digital forensics specialist should possess adequate operating system knowledge. In an instance of a cybercrime investigation, one should access the operating systems and all other endpoint devices to conduct a successful investigation. This process of analyzing evidence and interpreting cyber data during cyber-attacks needs often requires advanced analytical skills. A high level of analytical thinking with precise observance is required to uncover through the acquired evidence. Investigative skills are an added advantage since digital forensics deals with cybercrimes and criminal law knowledge. A digital forensics analyst needs to have extreme attention to detail when dealing with digital evidence from cyber-attacks. It's imperative to pay attention to any detail to ensure one does not miss anything (Gogolin, 2012).

References

Garrison, C. (2010). Digital forensics for network, internet, and cloud computing.

Gogolin, G. (2012). Digital forensics explained. CRC Press.

Le-Khac, N. (2019). Security, privacy, and digital forensics in the cloud. John Wiley & Sons.