Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence

Strategic Leadership in Digital Evidence: What Executives Need to Know provides leaders with broad knowledge and understanding of practical concepts in digital evidence, along with its impact on investigations. The book's chapters cover the differentiation of related fields, new market technologies, operating systems, social networking, and much more. This guide is written at the layperson level, although the audience is expected to have reached a level of achievement and seniority in their profession, principally law enforcement, security and intelligence. Additionally, this book will appeal to legal professionals and others in the broader justice system.

• Covers a broad range of challenges confronting investigators in the digital environment
• Addresses gaps in currently available resources and the future focus of a fast-moving field
• Written by a manager who has been a leader in the field of digital forensics for decades

Managers and executive leaders of digital evidence capabilities who wish to enhance their understanding of the field for which they are responsible, such as state, local and private lab managers

1. Introduction
2. The Forensics Model is Dead
3. Statistical Surveys
4. Definitions, Disambiguation and Differentiation of Related Fields
5. Digital Forensics Process
6. Digital Forensics Organisational Capability
7. Education and Training
8. Quality Assurance
9. Human Factors
10. Tool Validation
11. Datasets
12. The Risks for Digital Evidence
13. Sources of Evidential Data
14. Cryptocurrency
15. Crime Types in the Digital Realm
16. Investigations
17. Emerging Trends
18. Conclusion