In my own words, Computer Forensics is the scientific method of obtaining digital evidence from computing devices while maintaining their integrity and authenticity to ensure digital evidence may be accepted in a court of law. I recently completed a Masters course in Computer Forensics at the University of San Diego after having performed previous computer forensic mentor work with high school students for the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot program and Cal Poly's 2018 California Cyber Innovation Challenge. This field is vast, constantly changing, and much more tedious than any movie or television program portrays. However, working as a computer forensic analyst and discovering a clear and consistent timeline of activities or artifacts which tell a story, makes a lot of the labor worthwhile. This is the exciting part.
Computers and the Internet are tools. Tools can be used as they are intended, or they can be abused. Unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse which occurs which is aided by the use of computers and the Internet. Child exploitation, human traffic, terrorism, financial crimes, or even just plain human rights violations leading to murder, prison or torture. The field of Computer Forensics attempts to aide companies and Governments to provide evidence of these serious crimes by analyzing those systems involved. Some wonderful resources I have found for computer forensics include the following in no particular order:
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AuthorI am a Doctoral Scholar at Colorado Technical University and a graduate of the Cyber Security Operations and Leadership program from the University of San Diego. I work in cybersecurity, and have accumulated twenty years in the IT industry. There are few IT roles I have not performed, which gives me great insights into making sense of all the IT confusion. Archives
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