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Practical applications of ESI collection and review Generally accepted use by courts
include the following: and stakeholders
• Examining bank records and email communications
to identify attempts to divert funds from the marital Forensic collection of electronic evidence is well-
estate in a marital separation understood by investigators and the courts. Practitioners
should be familiar with generally accepted approaches
• Searching emails for evidence of harassment or and relevant legal requirements for the jurisdictions
inappropriate behavior and violations of company in which the evidence is being collected and stored.
code of conduct in employment litigation
Practitioners must be particularly sensitive to privacy
• Identifying and analysing potentially fraudulent laws and documentation of chain of custody.
financial transactions; identifying questionable journal
entries; and determining the persons responsible for
recording and approving them Learn more
• Scrutinizing business emails to identify facts related to
contract disputes • Digital Forensic Process — Preservation/
• Collecting financial data for economic damage Collection, DriveSavers Data Recovery,
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calculations June 8, 2017
• Analysing digital devices and data to provide evidence • Digital Evidence and Forensics, National
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relating to cybercrime Institute of Justice
• Establishing intent when trying to prove criminal • Best Practices in Digital Evidence Collection,
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culpability SANS, September 12, 2009
• Computer Forensics: Digital Evidence, Infosec 12

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