Standards and Best Practices in Digital and Multimedia Forensics

Abstract

The chapter is organized as follows. In the next section we will give an overview of most important standards and best practice guides covered in this chapter, in order to show a big picture of what has been happening in this space since the early 1990s when electronic evidence started becoming an important area for law enforcement and forensic practitioners to look at seriously. This section will give a complete list of all standards and best practice guides covered in this chapter. After the overview a number of sections are dedicated to different groups of standards and best practice guides according to their contents: Section 2.3 covers electronic evidence and digital forensics in general, Section 2.4 focuses on multimedia evidence and multimedia forensics, Section 2.5 looks at digital forensics laboratory accreditation, Section 2.6 focuses on general quality assurance (management) procedures important for digital forensics laboratories, and finally Section 2.7 covers training, education and certification. The last section concludes this chapter with a summary of existing standards and best practices and also future trends.