Cyber Forensics: From Data to Digital Evidence

Acknowledgments

AS AUTHORS, LET’S be frank: It is almost impossible to be fully honest when assessing one’s own work. It’s also impossible to be fully independent or even neutral when attempting to assess or evaluate what one has written, no matter how hard one tries.

Thus, to remedy this truism, we, as most dedicated authors, reach out to colleagues, peers, and sometimes even to strangers (well, the publisher does) to provide us with a truly independent assessment and review of what we have written.

This assessment can occur at various stages of the development of a book, such as the one you are about to read, in segments or chapters, during its formative development stages, as a completed, draft manuscript or even once the last keystroke has been struck and development is finalized.

To achieve this sought after assessment, we have reached out to individuals whom we respect, asking them to critically review our work and to provide us with the benefit of their expertise and extensive knowledge in the fields of cyber forensics, audit, information technologies, e-discovery, and investigative sciences, as they critiqued the book you are about to read.

We are thankful for their assessment and suggestions for improvement, as they have provided us with valuable insights into refining our text and providing you the reader, with the most accurate and technically current material related to the emerging and evolving field of cyber forensic investigation and analysis.

While it is not possible ...