Forensics, or forensic science, is the application of scientific methods to resolve or shed light on legal issues. It has a number of subdivisions; forensic medicine involves the examination of the human body (living or dead) for purposes of answering legal questions or gathering evidence for a criminal or civil action. Forensic accounting involves the examination of financial records for the same purpose. And computer forensics, as the name indicates, involves the examination of computer systems and data for legal purposes.
A forensic pathologist is a medical doctor first, who then specializes in pathology, with forensics being a subspecialty. Similarly, a forensic accountant has a broad education in general accounting principles before focusing on the legal field. Ideally, then, a computer forensics expert will be trained in computer science before specializing in forensics. However, in the real world there has been deviation from this pattern. The computer field is much less regulated than medicine or accounting, and one doesn’t have to be licensed or meet any particular educational standards in order to hang out a shingle as a “computer expert.” Many are self-taught or learned their skills through on-the-job training. And many of those working in computer forensics were initially trained in law enforcement - police officers or general evidence technicians who developed an interest in digital evidence. Others were IT professionals or IT security personnel (with or without formal training) who became interested in the evidentiary nature of digital data.
The point? There are many different starting points for becoming a computer forensics expert.
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Source: blogs.techrepublic.com
By: Deb Shinder
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