When is digital evidence forensically sound?

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 285, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-15

  McKemmish, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital evidence; Forensically sound evidence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER FORENSICS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES;

DIGITAL EVIDENCE; DIGITAL FORENSIC; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; FORENSIC COMPUTING; FORENSICALLY SOUND EVIDENCE;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 51149096009     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84927-0_1     Document Type: Article

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