Building a Digital Forensic Laboratory

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Computer crime represents one of the fastest growing crime rates in the country and the need for computer forensics is growing. From child sexual exploitation to international terrorism to corporate financial scandals, more and more crimes involve computers directly or indirectly, and investigations must include digital forensics and e-discovery. More and more law enforcement jurisdictions find they need to establish a computer forensics lab, and existing federal facilities are being expanded. Increasingly, corporations will need to establish computer forensic labs to conduct their own investigations as well. As TechRepublic recently reported, "Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. Organized crime is capitalizing on every opportunity to exploit new technology to perform classic crimes such as fraud and extortion to make money illegally. The threat of cybercrime to businesses continues to increase at a staggering rate." The need to professionally and successfully conduct computer forensic investigations of incidents and crimes has never been greater. This has caused an increased requirement for information about the creation and management of computer forensic laboratories and the investigations themselves. This includes a great need for information on how to cost-effectively establish and manage a computer forensics laboratory. This book meets that need: a clearly written, non-technical book on the topic of computer forensics with emphasis on the establishment and management of a computer forensics laboratory and its subsequent support to successfully conducting computer-related crime investigations.