Implementing Digital Forensic Readiness

Chapter 13

Maintain Evidence-Based Reporting

Abstract

Some objectives for executing any investigation is to use digital evidence as a means of answering questions about an incident or event and demonstrate credibility behind these answers. Supporting these requires organizations to follow a metrology by which their investigative reporting capability is based on the presentation of factual evidence-based conclusions.

Keywords

Credibility; Exculpatory; Factual; Inculpatory; Reports

 

This chapter discusses the ninth step for implementing a digital forensic readiness program as the need to provide answers to questions that arise during the investigation and demonstrate, through evidence-based reporting, why those answers are credible. Ultimately, the purpose ...