Technology is advancing at an alarming rate. We now have more methods of interaction than ever before: phone, text, instant messenger, GPS, Skype, etc. Businesses today must be connected at multiple levels via multiple media in order to be competitive. Ponder and develop a strategy for future forensic applications in an increasingly digitalized and connected world. Discuss the challenges that these new media and technologies present to the forensic analyst and begin to frame some solutions. Solution Computer forensics is the practice of collecting, analysing and reporting on digital data in a way that is legally admissible. It can be used in the detection and prevention of crime and in any dispute where evidence is stored digitally. Computer forensics follows a similar process to other forensic disciplines, and faces similar issues. The phrase “digital forensics” invokes an image of law enforcement officers conducting criminal investigations. The breadth of digital forensics practices goes far beyond this narrow definition. Civil cases use forensic analysis. Large corporations and organizations use their own forensics groups to investigate internal issues, compliance, and insider threats that are rarely publicly released. Governments have forensic resources that are applied in many areas, such as military intelligence. Forensic Applications of New Analytical Technologies Multiply hyphenated techniques, such as gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with retention time locking (GC/MS/RTL), liquid chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC/MS/TOF), microfluidic-based capillary electrophoretic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA/ICP/MS), are able to uncover forensically germane information by providing unprecedented levels of analytical selectivity and sensitivity, extracting genetic signatures from previously overlooked biological sources, and sequentially microdeconstructing samples so as to map the spatial variation and concentration of elemental constituents. These new ranges of information and rich data sets can contribute facts crucial to the reconstruction of events and thereby increase the probability of an accurate finding in the matters under investigation..