Most organisations have an incident handling and incident response team; typically they do not perform the role to investigate computer crimes. This IH/IR team provides assistance, information and some research for their internal organisation.

Although forensics is typically associated with law enforcement and criminal investigations, forensics techniques and technologies have wide spread applications ranging from complex incident response to eDiscovery . The knowledge of understanding the processes is vital. An organisation may owns the best policy and process but do not have the skills and expertise to handle the computer and/or computer related crime may potentially damage the process.

Speaking of laced, Asia organisation finds this “new kid on the block” does overlaps in many departments. All types of data included:- email, IM, all Microsoft office files, databases; financial information, drawings, website; applications, and any other electronically stored information could be considered or used in lawful litigation and criminal inquiry. Not to oversight with hidden files.

To establish a specialized team, respective department are to have a representative to take ownership for this vital role; Legal, Public Relations/ Marketing, Information Technology, Human Resource and the management team. To have the management team support is not only vital but a must; they take lead to make decision and speed in action is priority to evidence collection then handling can be efficiently supported.

Quantiq International foresees that in the short few years, cyber-forensic will become a natural integrations of the entire Information Technology Group. Some clients recognize that the fast paced world of electronic information is exploding and the increased of cyber-crime or related computer crime in this connected world will not halt.

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