Clearing tracks

The field of cybersecurity is growing at an exponential rate; the need for professionals to help combat and protect organizations and citizens from both cyber threats and threat actors are in extremely high demand. A cyber-attack can be anything from a phishing email, malware infection, and even ransomware attacks; the cybersecurity organizations and certification bodies, such as EC-Council and GIAC, saw the need for forensics in the digital world as assists in investigations to determine what happened, how the attack took place, the threat actors, and many more details that can assist the prosecution in a court of law.

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In cybersecurity, a security incident is an event that is triggered by an organization’s system or network that indicates a compromise. An example of a security incident is a malicious file running on an employee’s computer. The anti-malware protection software will detect and trigger an alert for investigation.

The field of digital forensics opened the...