Forensic Incident Reporting (DFIR)

Digital forensics is a department for computer forensics that is concerned with examining the digital components of an individual or company, to determine whether or not the owner or a vicious cyber attack has taken illegal action.

Data forensics is the skill set used by IT experts to test hard drives and computer devices. However, in the modern business world, it is important to broaden the consideration of threats to other digital resources such as networks, memory, digital objects and more. In this way, digital forensics helps IT professionals detect incidents of cybercrime, such as ransomware and hacking.

Incident response refers to an additional collection of processes that arise after an incident has been detected. In the event of an incident, it is critical that the correspondence is transparent and available, that all parties concerned are alerted to the organization by the incident response manager and, furthermore, that measures are identified to address the problem.

IT specialists can be charged with malware detection during digital forensics and incident response. Malware can be redesigned by tech professionals to learn more about how it works, how it was created and who made it.