As the world becomes more entwined with technology, modern legal cases rely more heavily on digital evidence. Data forensic teams play a key role in collating and presenting evidence that can be used in a case and are often a key contributing factor to a verdict.

So, what is data forensics? And what processes do data forensic teams undergo to gather potentially case-winning evidence? In this blog post, we’ll discuss:

• What is data forensics?
• What do data forensic teams do?
• What is data forensic collection?
• The forensic data process

What is data forensics?

Data forensics is the investigation of digital data and its creation and use. Data forensics — also referred to as computer forensics — can involve the recovery or tracking of phone call logs, texts or emails.

The term ‘data forensics’ is relatively broad. It can refer to any action that identifies, preserves, recovers or analyses data. Think of it as part of the wider scope of forensics, with evidence collected and studied to investigate an alleged crime.