Sicherheit & Recht

How a Standardization Process May Impact on the Relation Between Digital Evidence and Digital Forensics

Radina Stoykova
Radina Stoykova
Category:

Articles

Region:

Italy

Field of law:

Security and Law

Collection:

Conference proceedings IRIS 2018

Citation: Radina Stoykova, How a Standardization Process May Impact on the Relation Between Digital Evidence and Digital Forensics, in: Jusletter IT IRIS

Legal, technical and scientific standardization is presented as complementary approach to the CoE and EU legal initiatives to improve cross-border exchange of digital evidence. Policy-making for digital evidence is considered as a network of standards between different stakeholders (forensics specialists, law enforcement and service providers), which can be equally sound in law-making, court proceedings and forensic science, because it would provide a basis to guide or interpret legal fact-finding, but it would also have the flexibility to adjust to specific jurisdictions, other legal domains, and technologies in an agile manner.


Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Understanding of key terms
    • 2.1. Digital evidence
    • 2.2. Digital forensics and quality assurance
    • 2.3. Standards as legal requirement
      • 2.3.1. Theoretical background
      • 2.3.2. Potential drawbacks of a standardization process
      • 2.3.3. Potential benefits of a standardization process
  • 3. Legal standardization impact on forensics and evidence
  • 4. Scientific standardization process
    • 4.1. Legal questions in scientific standardization
    • 4.2. Reliability and authenticity standard
  • 5. Data protection and forensics
  • 6. Conclusions
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