How forensic accounting works

Why is the explosion in internet-enabled devices useful?

Because the more crime people commit online, the easier it is to catch them

Because it is much easier to analyse digital information compared to other types of information

Because digital information can never truly be deleted

Because it increases the scope for digital to support investigations

What is digital forensics?

The act of catching criminals using digital information

The collection of admissible evidence in the form of data

The collection and analysis of data for use as evidence in court

The act of analysing digital information carefully

Why is it important that investigations in the digital sphere comply fully with the law?

Because not doing so may render the evidence inadmissible

Because your evidence may be discounted as unreliable by the jury

Because you should always comply with the law and digital is no exception

Because otherwise the defence may be able to use your actions against you

What is the main goal of a forensic investigation?

To reconstruct the truth of an event

To catch criminals who have used digital devices as part of a criminal enterprise or act

To assist the victim in evidence gathering

To help the prosecutor gather evidence

What two categories is digital forensics work divided into?

Mobile and computer

Networks and devices

Devices and data

Online and offline

Why does digital data need to be gathered and treated with care?

Because many people do not understand it

Because it can easily be deleted

Because it is often only one tiny part of a huge picture

Because negligence could affect its integrity and useability

What is the investigating team's primary concern?

To gather admissible, authentic, complete and reliable data

Determining the validity of the types of forensic tool used for data and evidence collection

Catching the perpetrator

To shut down the network as soon as possible so that no further damage can occur

Which of these is not a key guiding principle for forensic investigators?

Never allow peer-to-peer file sharing applications to be run on the forensic workstation

Never use the forensic platform unsupervised

Do not send emails from the forensic platform

Do not surf the internet from the forensic platform

Which of these is not a stage of digital forensics?

Analysis

Prosecution

Acquisition

Presentation

Which of these is not a category into which information is divided during the analysis phase?

Evidence that neither supports nor contradicts the investigation but only proves whether the systems were tampered with

Evidence that contradicts the investigation

Evidence that supports the investigation

Evidence that supports the view that there was system tampering

How forensic accounting works

Why is the explosion in internet-enabled devices useful?

What is digital forensics?

Why is it important that investigations in the digital sphere comply fully with the law?

What is the main goal of a forensic investigation?

What two categories is digital forensics work divided into?

Why does digital data need to be gathered and treated with care?

What is the investigating team's primary concern?

Which of these is not a key guiding principle for forensic investigators?

Which of these is not a stage of digital forensics?

Which of these is not a category into which information is divided during the analysis phase?

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