Legal and Policy Studies for Digital Forensics | HiSEC Information Security Laboratory
Legal and policy research on lawful forensic procedures, evidence preservation, standards, and practice guidelines.
Legal and Policy Studies for Digital Forensics
Even technically accurate forensic findings can lose practical trust if procedural legitimacy and explainability are insufficient. This area reviews the legal basis for analysis, data minimization, evidence storage and transfer records, tool validation, and standards compliance, while studying procedure criteria for changing digital environments.
Research Questions
How can legality and reliability be ensured in digital evidence handling procedures?; How should practice guidelines and standards be designed for emerging digital environments?; How should privacy protection be balanced with the need for evidence analysis?
Methods
Analysis of forensic procedures, laws, and policy literature; Review of evidence preservation, chain-of-custody, and privacy criteria; Derivation of practice guidelines, checklist items, and standardization requirements
Applications
Procedure criteria development; Policy consulting; Standardization research
Representative Topics
Policy, Standards, Due Process, Practice Guidelines