| Due to technology advancement, nearly all of the | | | | is essential to get the involvement of the computer |
| information in a corporation is created and managed | | | | forensics investigators or experts to trace the criminal |
| electronically. Only a small percentage of information is | | | | act in the organizations. |
| committed to paper. This changing trend has | | | | Having computer forensics investigators and experts in |
| encouraged more and more cyber crimes or | | | | the companies is important in handling cyber crime |
| computer crimes to take place in the whole world. | | | | cases because all the digital evidences in emails, |
| Here comes the computer forensics to encounter | | | | internet banking transactions, documents or files |
| these computer-age crimes. | | | | generated from operating system and databases |
| A surprising statistics has shown that around 71% of | | | | need to be safeguarded and preserved carefully. All |
| these particular illegal activities come from "inside the | | | | these evidences are volatile and can be destroyed |
| organization". This shows that the employees of the | | | | easily. Only through computer forensics, all the hidden |
| companies are misusing the computers to steal | | | | and deleted documents can be identified, collected, |
| valuable data. They also help outsiders to get access | | | | analyzed and presented to the court for legal |
| to private and confidential information of their | | | | proceeding. |
| companies for their own benefits. In normal | | | | Computer forensics allows the uncovered facts and |
| circumstances, these cyber criminals are undetected | | | | illegal activities to be revealed. This "legal" hacking is |
| and they are able to get away easily because many | | | | indeed important in ensuring the computer system |
| companies still haven't got the expertise to track these | | | | security throughout the world is well protected. |
| irresponsible employees. Looking at these situations, it | | | | |