Forensic Procedures

Question 1

After establishing probable cause, your company, AB Investigative Services (ABIS), has been contacted by a prominent state law enforcement agency. Investigators do not understand the specifics of processing digital evidence or analyzing digital evidence. As an ABIS investigator, you will need go to the scene and provide guidance concerning the identification of digital evidence that will establish motive related to the particular offense. The state forensic agents will follow the procedure guidelines provided by you to establish the motive of its case as it relates to a high-tech crime.

For full credit, your 3–4-paragraph posting must include the following information:

• What do you consider to be the 3 most important computer-related forensics procedures necessary in processing evidence at the scene of a crime? Provide your reasoning of why these are the most important procedures.
• What do you consider to be the most important aspect of how a financial investigator must secure digital evidence to help in the prosecution of offenders, and why this process is important?
• How would omitting one of these forensic procedures negatively affect either the investigation or prosecution process?
• What is a possible oversight that could occur during the collection and identification of digital evidence process, and what is one way to overcome such an oversight?

Question 2

Do Project 1E Documentary that begins on page 205 of your textbook. Submit the document by clicking the Attachments button to attach the file. Do not paste the document in the Message area.

You will need to download and use the following data files in your project:

Picture of Antarctica

Documentary Overview.

In addition to the assignment file, answer the following question with your submission. This can be answered directly in your Submission comment area, or as a separate Word attachment file:

In this Week’s reading and prep work, you learned about SmartArt graphics and how to add them to your documents. Take a look at some of the different options for SmartArt graphics found in Microsoft Word, and indicate which one you feel you are most likely to use, and what sort of document type you might use it in. Explain why you feel this is a good fit. Please look to answer this in at least 3 complete sentences in order to address it adequately.