You have been employed to lead a forensic computing team located in a successful cyber
security consultancy. Your boss, who does not have a technical background in IT or Cyber
Security, has heard that you have studied Computer Forensics as part of your master
degree in cyber security and that you have some well-developed skills in computer science
/ business / law. He is interested in this since he has heard that Forensic Computing could
be a new and profitable focus of the consultancy work. He wants to find out about the
following issues and he is particularly interested in the kind of people he should employ,
what they might be doing day to day and also the tools and methods they will need to
use. Please write him a report, avoiding as much technical jargon as you can and help him
understand:
1. Can general computer security professionals become familiar with forensic
computing and digital evidence? Do they still need broad cyber security skills? Do you
think that they will find this work feasible to complete based on their other
developed undergraduate skills in cyber security or computer science?
2. What are the main challenges of investigating computer-related crime?
3. How will his staff be able to access data in a Windows environment and turn it into
digital evidence?
4. If he buys Magnet Axiom for his staff and also gets them trained, what are the basic
technical processes that his staff will need to carry out in order to find robust (but not
complex) digital evidence for a court or some other kind of investigation