Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals

Chapter 3. Digital Forensics

The Subdisciplines

Information in this chapter:

• The subdisciplines

Originally the field of digital forensics only included computers, primarily personal computers. Over the last 20 years or so, as computers have become connected through small local networks and ultimately through the largest network of them all, the Internet, the term computer forensics has become too limited to encompass the entire field. In this chapter we provide an overview of the various subdisciplines in digital forensics.

Keywords

Cell Phone, Computer Forensics, Social Media, GPS, Multiplayer Games, Game Consoles, Media Devices, Incident Response

Introduction

Originally the field of digital forensics only included computers, primarily personal computers. ...