Lecture Overview

      Professor Mark Pollitt is the guest speaker for this lecture. Professor Pollitt is retired FBI, where he served as the Director of the FBI's Computer and Analysis and Response team, and was the FBI's first digital forensics examiner.  He has years of experience in report writing.  It is crucial that you be able to convey what you have done in your analysis to both lay persons (judge, jury prosecutor) as well as to technical peers (e.g., other forensics examiners).

Videos:

• Report Writing
• Report Writing (2013)
• Examiner note taking

Files:

• Laboratory Notes
• Laboratory Report

Readings:

• Seizing evidence: Chapter 14
• Imaging: Chapter 4
• Hashing:  pp 126-127, 190
• Posst SWGDE-SWGIT SOP Document
• Quality Assurance
• Notes Example
• Laboratory Report Example

Lab: 

• Report.zip (these are the templates you'll use for your notes and report. Download to your computer and unzip).