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Disheveled Digital Forensics: The Impact of Inconsistent Standards, Certifica...Josh Moulin, MSISA,CISSP
Technology and digital evidence are at the forefront of nearly every criminal, civil, and corporate investigation in the world. For the past thirty years digital evidence such as computers, cellular phones, tablets, servers, GPS devices, gaming consoles, storage devices, and network infrastructure devices have been forensically analyzed and presented in legal proceedings. In many cases digital evidence has been the “smoking gun” leading to successful convictions, lawsuits, employment terminations, and exonerations.
Although digital forensics has been recognized as a legitimate forensic science and has been utilized in the criminal justice system for the same length of time that DNA has, the discipline is anything but disciplined. Within the United States, any law enforcement agency, business, or individual can open a forensic “laboratory” and begin providing services without having to demonstrate even foundational knowledge, skills, or abilities. To further evidence this, within the law enforcement community alone there are only 67 digital forensic laboratories accredited to the ISO 17025:2005 standards for the nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the country.
The lack of requirements for digital forensic practitioners to be certified in their discipline, be accountable to industry best practices and standards, or work out of accredited laboratories places the credibility of this forensic science in jeopardy. This paper will discuss the risks and impacts associated with unskilled practitioners who perform digital forensic analysis. Also included will be an examination of some legal cases that highlight the risks identified within the paper. Research and practical experience will be drawn upon to provide the reader with proposed solutions to improve the quality of the digital forensic discipline. Topics such as forensic analyst training, proficiency testing, certification, best practices, policies and procedures, and laboratory standards and accreditation will be discussed.
The good news is that much of the work has already been done to identify digital forensic best practices and laboratory standards. This paper will provide a framework for digital forensic practitioners and managers to comply with best practices, standards, guidelines, and analyst certification and training within the discipline as well as minimum requirements that should be met before digital forensic evidence is allowed to be introduced into a legal proceeding.
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Andy Teichholz, a Senior Discovery Consultant at Daegis, delivered a presentation at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics' ("SCCE") conference on Nov. 10 in San Francisco titled Effective Internal Investigations. Andy spoke on eDiscovery and computer forensics processes and concepts in an investigative context. His presentation identified preliminary investigative considerations and requirements for data preservation and collection.
Every lawyer needs eDiscovery. Do you do it right?
Learn how to navigate dramatically increasing amounts of electronic data in this free Clio webinar.
How does your firm handle eDiscovery? In litigation and government investigations, eDiscovery is the process by which information is exchanged electronically—and it’s becoming more and more common.
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Disheveled Digital Forensics: The Impact of Inconsistent Standards, Certifica...Josh Moulin, MSISA,CISSP
Technology and digital evidence are at the forefront of nearly every criminal, civil, and corporate investigation in the world. For the past thirty years digital evidence such as computers, cellular phones, tablets, servers, GPS devices, gaming consoles, storage devices, and network infrastructure devices have been forensically analyzed and presented in legal proceedings. In many cases digital evidence has been the “smoking gun” leading to successful convictions, lawsuits, employment terminations, and exonerations.
Although digital forensics has been recognized as a legitimate forensic science and has been utilized in the criminal justice system for the same length of time that DNA has, the discipline is anything but disciplined. Within the United States, any law enforcement agency, business, or individual can open a forensic “laboratory” and begin providing services without having to demonstrate even foundational knowledge, skills, or abilities. To further evidence this, within the law enforcement community alone there are only 67 digital forensic laboratories accredited to the ISO 17025:2005 standards for the nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the country.
The lack of requirements for digital forensic practitioners to be certified in their discipline, be accountable to industry best practices and standards, or work out of accredited laboratories places the credibility of this forensic science in jeopardy. This paper will discuss the risks and impacts associated with unskilled practitioners who perform digital forensic analysis. Also included will be an examination of some legal cases that highlight the risks identified within the paper. Research and practical experience will be drawn upon to provide the reader with proposed solutions to improve the quality of the digital forensic discipline. Topics such as forensic analyst training, proficiency testing, certification, best practices, policies and procedures, and laboratory standards and accreditation will be discussed.
The good news is that much of the work has already been done to identify digital forensic best practices and laboratory standards. This paper will provide a framework for digital forensic practitioners and managers to comply with best practices, standards, guidelines, and analyst certification and training within the discipline as well as minimum requirements that should be met before digital forensic evidence is allowed to be introduced into a legal proceeding.
Keywords: digital forensics, computer forensics, digital evidence, forensic laboratory accreditation, forensic certifications, digital forensic best practices
Andy Teichholz, a Senior Discovery Consultant at Daegis, delivered a presentation at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics' ("SCCE") conference on Nov. 10 in San Francisco titled Effective Internal Investigations. Andy spoke on eDiscovery and computer forensics processes and concepts in an investigative context. His presentation identified preliminary investigative considerations and requirements for data preservation and collection.
Every lawyer needs eDiscovery. Do you do it right?
Learn how to navigate dramatically increasing amounts of electronic data in this free Clio webinar.
How does your firm handle eDiscovery? In litigation and government investigations, eDiscovery is the process by which information is exchanged electronically—and it’s becoming more and more common.
Unlike traditional information stored in paper form, electronic information is much more pervasive, long-lasting, and transient. During a discovery disclosure, you will get mountains of data that needs to be sorted and analyzed. In this webinar, we’ll talk about the principles of eDiscovery and how your can ensure that your practice can properly preserve and sort information efficiently.
Join Nextpoint CEO Rakesh Madhava and Clio’s own Joshua Lenon as we walk you through:
- the basics of eDiscovery
- which tools your firm should use to acquire and preserve information
- how to quickly find the nuggets of data your case needs
- how to integrate eDiscovery better into your practice
Even with the growing importance of eDiscovery, most law firms still aren’t prepared to handle large amounts of digital information. Make sure that yours isn’t one of them.
Josh Moulin describes his experience building a mobile digital forensic lab on a small budget. This article discusses the effectiveness and efficiencies gained by having a mobile digital lab as well as some of the considerations when building one.
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Just a game Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?
2. What If….
Your company got filed with a Lawsuit comprising of
Litigation Hold.
• Is your IT and Operations Ready?
• Are your employees ready?
• Is your Legal dept ready?
• Do you have Litigation Hold processes in place? Response
team ready to go?
• Do you have policies, procedures to deal with this?
• Are your systems configured to minimize cost of e-
Discovery?
Do you know the implications if you don’t have above
processes & procedures in place?
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3. Agenda
1 Challenges with Litigation
2 Implications
3 Solutions to Litigation Preparedness
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6. Challenges with Litigation
Widespread Organizational Impact
• Employees • Operations
CEO
End user
CFO
Application
admin Records Mgr
Compliance
Officer
Storage admin
Legal counsel Systems admin
CIO
• Legal • Technology
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7. Challenges with Litigation
Employees
• There are thousands of emails sent with enormous
amount of information. Some of this email may be
inappropriate.
• Information gets copied from work computers to
personal computers.
• Outsiders (family members) often use employee’s work
computers.
• Majority of employees do not know or care about
security or legal implications.
• Corporate info gets sent to third parties outside the
company.
• Use company resources in ways they shouldn’t.
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8. Challenges with Litigation
Legal
• Lawyers are not technically grounded.
• Traditional attorneys do not emphasize front-end
“process” issues that would help simplify or focus
search problem in particular contexts.
• The reality is that huge sources of heterogeneous ESI
exist, presenting an array of technical issues.
• Deadlines and resource constraints.
• Failure to employ best strategic practices.
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9. Challenges with Litigation
Technology & IT
• IT does not understand implications of litigation, scope and
implications.
• Most IT staff do not know or understand Legal hold processes nor
do they know what to do.
• Security, HR and other corporate personnel do not understand
implications or do not have appropriate skills. Roles and
responsibilities are not clearly defined as they relate to litigations,
e-discoveries.
• Solutions aimed at external threats, not internal audits.
• Solutions based on old ideas of “perimeter” threats.
• Unable to provide real time detection and remediation.
• Information protection is increasingly complex and costly.
• Mailboxes are capped at 200 MB, but PSTs (or local archives) are
everywhere.
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10. Challenges with Litigation
Operations
• Keeping the company
running while responding
to litigation and e-
Discovery requests.
• Many systems to look at.
• No formal litigation
readiness process.
High costs of e-Discovery, Litigation and
poor preparation often leads to
settlement.
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12. Implications
Litigation Readiness Process
First Issue Discovery Court
internal internal requested order
awareness retention hold by one issued
party
Deliver Result Search, Query
Discovery
response review
request
To the
court Archive User
DB directory
Discovery depends on
effective archiving
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14. Implications
New Sources of Data
• IM
• VOIP
• MP3 Storage Devices
(iPods)
• Memory sticks and flash
drives
• Global positioning
systems
• Blogs
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15. Implications
Types of Data – Consider where this information resides
in a geographically dispersed organization.
• Billing records • Emails
• Official correspondence • Purchase orders
• Contracts • Accounts payable & receivables
• Internal policies • Audio / video recordings
• Personnel records • Images
• Any signed forms • Drawings
• Audit / financial reports • Backup drives
• Research studies • Rough drafts
• Testing records • Personal notes
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16. Implications
Over 1 BILLION emails are generated by small company
each year. That does NOT include all the documents and
other artifacts created.
25,000 Users
* 100 Daily emails
2,500,000
* 365
912,500,000 Yearly emails
* 5
4,285,199,774 web pages 4,562,500,000 emails
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17. Implications
• Risk of Legal Holds
• Cost of E-Discovery
• Discovery Part of a Bigger Picture
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19. Solutions to Litigation
Why Litigation Readiness?
• Regulatory and Compliance drivers.
• Litigation issues.
• Data protection problems.
• General information management “Best Practice.”
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20. Solutions to Litigation
Organizations must:
• Assess Litigation and e-Discovery readiness.
• Establish Litigation Response Team.
• Formulate e-Discovery Response Plan.
• Create Data Classification.
• Develop Enterprise Vault.
• Roll out Training & awareness plan.
• Maintain Records Management.
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21. Solutions to Litigation
Litigation and e-Discovery readiness assessment
• Review and assess policies, procedures, governance
currently in place.
• Review and assess organizational alignment of Legal, IT,
Operations and ability to respond to Litigations.
• Review and assess enterprise architecture.
• Review and assess records retention policy.
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22. Solutions to Litigation
Establish Litigation Response Team
• Create Litigation Response Team that is a Liaison
between
• Legal – internal and external
• Internal IT
• Operations
• Users
• Business Units
• Records manager
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23. Solutions to Litigation
E-Discovery Response Plan
1. Prevent Spoliation
2. Formulate Discovery Plan
3. Limit Scope of Discovery Request
4. Seek Cost Shifting
5. Collect Documents
6. Process Documents
7. Review Documents
8. Produce Documents
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24. Solutions to Litigation
Data Classification
• Determine the organization’s information asset classification
maturity level.
• Determine short term and long term goals to demonstrate
constant improvement.
• Classify & categorize data
Classification Maturity
• Relate business rules to 0 - No information assets are classified or
data classes. assets are randomly classified.
1- Assets are classified at a high level or
• Determine service levels organizational level, assets are unidentified.
• Review sources of data & 2- Processes are developed and implemented
allowing assets to be classified in detail.
access control. 3- New assets are classified in detail.
• Develop documentation 4 – Legacy assets are classified in detail.
methodology and 5 - Assets are classified, and processes exist
mechanism(s). that allow for asset reassessment and new
asset classification.
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25. Solutions to Litigation
Enterprise Vault
Intelligent Intelligent Intelligent
Classification Retention Discovery
• Automated, content-
based classification
engine • Filter from archive to • Tag for discovery to
remove junk / speed search
• Optional popup for unwanted material processes
user-driven
classification • Set retention to • Flag for review to
ensure appropriate ensure appropriate
• RM connectors for lifecycle supervisory cycle
EMC, OpenText, IBM,
Oracle
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26. Solutions to Litigation
Develop training and awareness plan
• Part of orientation process.
• Annual audit by all employees that keep records.
• Ongoing training of policies and awareness.
• Make confidential/sensitive data handlers aware of
privacy and security requirements.
• Require acknowledgment by data users of their
responsibility for safeguarding such data.
• Enhance general privacy and security awareness
programs to specifically address safeguarding
confidential/sensitive data.
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27. Solutions to Litigation
Records Management
• It is more than a timetable for destroying records.
• It is more than a single “records custodian” signing an
affidavit.
• Records management enforces the policies and rules
for the retention and disposition of content required
for documenting business transactions.
• A “records retention” policy should be a “records
management” policy.
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28. Solutions to Litigation
Remember that…
• Courts are not afraid and, in fact, increasingly prone, to
hold companies accountable for deficient discovery
practices.
• Courts consider electronic data a part of mainstream
discovery & are unwilling to tolerate destruction of
relevant information.
• Counsel, organizations & individuals must take
affirmative steps to prevent intentional and negligent
spoliation.
• Spoliation as a result of document mismanagement is
now seldom, if ever, excused.
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29. Forensics Corporation
Partnering Together To:
• Review, assess and update policies and processes.
• Establish a Litigation Response Team.
• Leverage technology to enforce policy.
• Automate collection, retention, legal hold and
expiration.
• Enable efficient e-Discovery with rapid production
through data classification, enterprise vault & records
management.
• Tie into internal and external litigation case
management.
• Provide training and good communication policies for
employees.
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