Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

DIGITAL FORENSICS LABORATORY PREPARATION AND 
TRAINING
To set up a forensic laboratory there are number of processes and procedures that 
are required to be followed. If the laboratory requires accreditation then further 
requirements are set by the accreditation bodies such as International Standards 
Organizations, or American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (
Jones and Valli, 
2004; Watson and Jones, 2013
).
There are many standards that are relevant when creating a digital forensics labo-
ratory, including: Environmental management systems (ISO 14000), occupational 
health and safety (OHSAS 18000), Risk Management (ISO 31000), Information se-
curity management (ISO 27000), etc.
Any forensics laboratory needs to be protected against external and environmen-
tal threats such as: fire, flood, backup systems, etc. and on-site secure evidence stor-
age for the purpose of only storing the evidences. Chain of custody requires that the 
robust procedures of management of evidences are followed.
All these and many more require that all employees are regularly trained on fo-
rensics laboratory information security awareness, specialist hardware and software, 
risk management and much more.

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CHAPTER 8
Digital forensics education, training and awareness
It is no secret that setting up a forensic laboratories are very resource intense and 
require variety of expensive tools that are needed to address different threats and dif-
ferent platforms/systems.
DIGITAL ANTI FORENSICS TOOLS AND APPROACHES
Anti-forensics as a concept is as old as the traditional computer forensics. Someone 
that commit a punishable action use any possible way to get rid of any evidence con-
nected with the prohibited action. The traditional forensics can have a range of anti-
forensics that start from a trivial level (e.g., wiping fingerprints from a gun) and to a 
level where our fantasy can meet the implementation of an anti-forensic idea (e.g., 
alteration of DNA left behind in a crime). In digital anti-forensics the same rules ex-
ist, with the difference that they are fairly new with little research and development 
(
Jahankhani et al., 2007
).
There are number of techniques that are used to apply anti-forensics. These tech-
niques are not necessarily designed with anti-forensics dimension in mind. For in-
stance, folder shielders have been designed in order to primarily provide a level of 
security and privacy, but they can be used as an anti-forensic tool since they can hide 
data. The others are:
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