Discussion: System forensics industry
Discussion: System forensics industry
Explain in your own words the importance of report writing and why you believe it is critical to the system forensics industry. Discuss the need for forensic reports when testifying as an expert witness.
2. Determine what you perceive to be the most difficult task in writing a system forensics report and explain why you believe this is the case. Decide whether or not software-generated reports assist with this specific portion of the report writing process and provide a rationale with your response.
3. Compare and contrast the roles of a technical / scientific witness and an expert witness. Determine which you believe to be the most important when it comes to a case and whether or not as a juror you would consider one’s testimony over another.
4. Use the Internet research and select at least one article discussing a case using a digital forensic expert witness. Examine how the expert witness was used in the case and determine if his / her testimony played a significant role in the case and its decision.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
