Using Software to Generate Reports

Nearly all commercial forensic software produces a report for the beginning of your documentation. Let’s look at a sample report from Paraben’s Case Agent Companion. To save space, most of the bookmarks have been deleted, but this will give you a general idea of what a generated report looks like.

Case #234—Acme Accounting Copyright Piracy Summary

Header

Agent: Customs Cyber Center

Examiner: D. Brown

Notes

Subject: Software Evidence

Body: The bookmarked files are part of a program that is used to generate software labels.

Author: D. Brown

Created: Fri Sep 10 13:42:28 GMT-07:00 2004

Modified: Sat Sep 11 06:16:35 GMT-07:00 2004

Analysis Logs

1. A laboratory computer was prepared by the investigator using licensed ...

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