Windows Forensics Cookbook

Academia

Academic research is a highly demanding career path which tends to be lower paid than other areas of forensic work, but it can be very rewarding. Working in academic research often gives you the opportunity to discover new techniques, and uncover new trends within the field. Depending on your institution and funding body, you may be able to work with some of the latest technologies, for example looking at the newest generation of Internet of Things devices and how forensic data from these can be used in investigations.

Getting into academic research will require at least an undergraduate degree. Generally, people come to realise that this field is for them in the course of their early studies, staying on for a postgraduate qualification, ...