Establishing Legal Admissibility

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Introduction

At this stage of implementing a digital forensic program, organizations will have a grasp on the totality of digital evidence available for proactive collection and have determined which of it, based on the business risk scenarios discussed in Chapter 7, “Defining Business Risk Scenarios,” can be gathered within the scope justified through the completion of a cost-benefit analysis.

With the organization’s collection requirements defined, steps must now be taken to implement a series of controls to guarantee that secure preservation of digital evidence is maintained when it is gathered from relevant data sources. These steps are important for organizations to establish that data has been preserved ...

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