QuickStudy: Computer forensics
Date: April 18, 2006Source: COMPUTERWORLD
IT managers aren't likely to confront dead bodies on the job, but a rudimentary knowledge of evidence, as it relates to computer data, can help protect your organization's operations, data and processes. In today's computer-driven world, where networked e-mail and instant messaging are the communication norms, knowing how to collect, handle and analyze information on a miscreant's computers can be critical to a successful civil or criminal prosecution.
There are two categories of computer crime: criminal activity that involves using a computer to commit a crime, and criminal activity that has a computer as a target, such as a network intrusion or a denial-of-service attack. The same means of gathering evidence are used to solve both types of crimes. And the same kinds of skills used by the lawbreakers are needed to track them down.
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