Technical, Legal and Internal Control Implications of Today's Digital Multifunctional Devices'

摘要

Traditional forensics professionals use among other tools, fingerprint, blood splatter and ballistic analysis, DNA typing, and forensic pathology to make their case. Infosec professionals have to develop new tools for collecting, preserving, examining and evaluating electronic evidence in an effort to establish intent, culpability, motive, means, methods and loss, resulting from cyber-based crimes.Considering the increasing complexity of technology and as a result, the devices which may contain latent and incriminating digital evidence, due to a migration from aged analog devices to state-of-the-art digital multifunctional devices (MFDs), this article discusses these MFDs, their potential legal exposures, their importance/role in IT audit and cyber forensic investigations and the exposure, which they may represent to un- and under- prepared organizations.