What is Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics is the identification, capture, preservation, restoration, and analysis of information stored on electronic media.

Electronic media can mean anything from computer discs and CD's to DVD's to hard drives, servers, backup-tapes, and thumb drives to cell phones, iPods, iPhones, Blackberries, Tivo's, game systems, camera's and more.

The easiest analogy is using a 35mm camera:

  1. Identify what you want to take a picture
  2. Take the picture (maybe take a few...)
  3. Develop the pictures
  4. Look at all the pictures
  5. Choose the most interesting photos (discard the others)
  6. Frame the photos you want
  7. Hang the framed photos on the wall
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