If your employees, for example, have connected to your network, you need policies in place to be able to analyze that data in the event of a breach or IP theft. Well, it’s extremely important to have policies in place about device usage. How can organizations, by having policies and procedures, help with being able to use digital forensics? These personal, digital devices like phones, as well as peripheral smart devices (like a smart refrigerator) play a part in our field, and all of these pieces of data can be collated and analyzed by digital forensic experts for evidence. Whether it’s Google Maps data, a messaging app like WhatsApp, or photos, most criminals have digital devices like everyone else. For example: location data (based on GPS data from the cloud or a third-party app), messages sent and received, and thumbnails of photos taken, even if they’ve been “deleted,” are all examples of data gleaned from digital forensics.Īlmost all crime is committed with some level of digital involvement.
For law enforcement, this means digital evidence that can help identify or convict a suspect, and for enterprises, it can help them recover from a breach or hack, or aid in compliance and regulatory matters. Only instead of fingerprints, DNA and physical clues like muddy shoe prints or blood, it’s bits of digital breadcrumbs and clues. What is digital forensics and what role is it playing in our digital world today?
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Lee Reiber, COO of Oxygen Forensics, has more than 20 years of experience in the field, and he responded to a series of questions about digital forensics. Digital forensics uses data from devices to help law enforcement and federal agencies solve crimes and businesses protect their data and intellectual property. As mobile phones continue to evolve to hold more data, support a larger number of apps, and increasingly utilize cloud storage, so too does the scope of crimes that can be committed using mobile technology.
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