Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals

Chapter 11. Approaches by Different Types of Examiners

Information in this chapter:

• Standards

• Training and experience

• Impact on examinations

• Ethics

• The approach to an examination

Digital forensics experts are products of their background, education, and experience. For this reason, different types of examiners take different approaches to the same problems. This can result in a wide disparity in the quality and efficacy of the results of their work in a case. These differences show themselves not only in the examiners’ approach to an examination of the actual evidence but their approach to the entire case.

Keywords

Standards, Ethics, Examiner Experience, Approaches

Introduction

Digital forensics examiners come from many different backgrounds: ...