Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence: What Executives Need to Know

Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence: What Executives Need to Know provides leaders with broad knowledge and understanding of practical concepts in digital evidence, along with its impact on investigations. The book's chapters cover the differentiation of related fields, new market technologies, operating systems, social networking, and much more. This guide is written at the layperson level, although the audience is expected to have reached a level of achievement and seniority in their profession, principally law enforcement, security and intelligence. Additionally, this book will appeal to legal professionals and others in the broader justice system.

Covers a broad range of challenges confronting investigators in the digital environmentAddresses gaps in currently available resources and the future focus of a fast-moving fieldWritten by a manager who has been a leader in the field of digital forensics for decades

1. Introduction 2. The Forensics Model is Dead 3. Statistical Surveys 4. Definitions, Disambiguation and Differentiation of Related Fields 5. Digital Forensics Process 6. Digital Forensics Organisational Capability 7. Education and Training 8. Quality Assurance 9. Human Factors 10. Tool Validation 11. Datasets 12. The Risks for Digital Evidence 13. Sources of Evidential Data 14. Cryptocurrency 15. Crime Types in the Digital Realm 16. Investigations 17. Emerging Trends 18. Conclusion