Computer forensics is necessarily a new science. It has two broad components – the application of technological skills and equipment to the preservation and collection of electronic data from computers and other electronic devices, and the interpretation of the results of that collection to help lawyers and law enforcement bodies to make use of it in civil or criminal proceedings.
The purpose of this paper is to show how the evolving computer forensics units in various law enforcement teams went through growing pains developing ways to preserve, collect, interpret and present the evidence, and how a similar path is evolving in the electronic disclosure market place. The key element is the integrity of the findings. Anyone involved with presenting any form of digital evidence must be sure that the final document presented in a court bundle or on a screen is identical in every way to the original item and be able to prove that.
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