| Computer forensics has emerged to be one of the | | | | • It is the responsibility of these professionals to |
| fast growing fields in the past few years due to the | | | | securely store and handle all the recovered data |
| increasing of computer crimes. These crimes are | | | | • The experts need to be well equipped with all |
| actually criminal activities committed through computer | | | | sorts of skills in order for them to find the significant |
| systems and the internet. | | | | information in a large volume of data. They have to |
| The wide spread use of personal computers in both | | | | track large amount of emails and instant messaging |
| businesses and the homes have facilitated many | | | | and evaluate their contents to look for evidence |
| computer fraud and cyber crimes. There are more | | | | • It is indeed a challenging task for these |
| and more challenges faced by the computer forensics | | | | professionals to present the information and evidence |
| experts when they are handling computers for legal | | | | to the court of law. This is because the criminals |
| purposes. | | | | nowadays are so smart to modify and damage the |
| Let's see some of the main challenges faced by these | | | | evidences, making them inadmissible in the court of law |
| particular experts: | | | | The job of computer forensics experts is becoming |
| • It is indeed an important but hard task for the | | | | more and more challenging as technology continues to |
| analysts to recover data from computers whilst | | | | develop. On the other hand, criminals always adapt |
| preserving evidential integrity. The experts requires | | | | themselves to changes and keep themselves updated |
| knowledge, expertise and experience to retrieve data | | | | with the latest law enforcement. They are so brilliant |
| from hard drives whose contents have been | | | | and they are always one step ahead of every |
| completely deleted. | | | | protection we undertake. |