Introduction 䡲 11
and away from external view, during an investigation, may be a greater corporate incentive for the
development of an internal cyber forensic investigative team.
Knowing how to identify, collect, preserve, and present the evidence collected as a result of the
e-discovery eff ort is critical to successfully protecting a company’s digital assets (IP) and even its
public reputation.
e art, the science of identifying, collecting, preserving and presenting that evidence when it
exists solely as electronic bit and bytes, when it is locked away in the hard drive of a PC, laptop, or
hidden in a server, is the evolving discipline of cyber forensics. Peeking under the hood, rooting
out the electronic evidence in a manner that will ...