Report Basics

The digital forensics report on findings that you are now tasked with drafting will be the most crucial element of the whole analysis process. You could be the most respected examiner in the world, but if you can’t interpret your findings effectively in a manner that is understood by upper management or counsel, then your efforts and many sleepless nights will be all for naught. This is your chance to formulate an unbiased and factual depiction of events that will either prove or disprove that a cyber crime even occurred.

You need to put the procedures that you followed and the techniques that you performed in getting to this point on display in your report. This information is critical because you will not only be trying to present ...

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