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Computer Forensics
Many criminals are now using networks and computes to commit cyber crimes and other illegal activities. As a result, law enforcement officials rely heavily on experts with the ability to remove data from computers that can be used in criminal investigations and prosecutions.
What is computer forensics?
Computer forensic specialists are responsible for locating, gathering, preserving, and analyzing evidence extracted from a computer that can be used in criminal investigations and prosecutions. Many police officers, prosecutors, criminal investigators, network administrators, and computer auditors rely on the work of computer forensics specialists while they collect and analyze data used in investigations. Data must be extracted in a way that will not make it inadmissible during a trial.
What would you do as a computer forensics specialist?
Computer forensic specialists help others extract evidence that might be stored in data storage devices, computer networks, and microcomputer systems. After recovering data, they must determine if it has been damaged, deleted, or altered. Although it may not seem possible, data that is deleted from a computer can usually be recovered.
What kind of training would you need?
Computer forensic specialists must understand how computer networks, software, and hardware functions. College degrees in computer forensics are usually available at the graduate level.
What is computer forensics?
Computer forensic specialists are responsible for locating, gathering, preserving, and analyzing evidence extracted from a computer that can be used in criminal investigations and prosecutions. Many police officers, prosecutors, criminal investigators, network administrators, and computer auditors rely on the work of computer forensics specialists while they collect and analyze data used in investigations. Data must be extracted in a way that will not make it inadmissible during a trial.
What would you do as a computer forensics specialist?
Computer forensic specialists help others extract evidence that might be stored in data storage devices, computer networks, and microcomputer systems. After recovering data, they must determine if it has been damaged, deleted, or altered. Although it may not seem possible, data that is deleted from a computer can usually be recovered.
What kind of training would you need?
Computer forensic specialists must understand how computer networks, software, and hardware functions. College degrees in computer forensics are usually available at the graduate level.