Digitial investigations have matured

Forensics enables you to understand and prevent breaches.

Sit down with a forensic investigator for an hour and you're sure to hear some interesting stories.

Like the time a digital investigation was initiated after a university student in Western Canada, who was using his school's internet connection to distribute child pornography, left a thumb drive containing illicit material in a public computer. The perpetrator was, incidentally, nabbed by police after stopping by the school's IT department asking if anyone had turned in the missing device.

Or, there was the time a forensicator – what digital investigators often call themselves – had to dig into a deceased employee's computer to determine if anything work related caused the person to take their own life.

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