Digital forensic methodology deviates significantly relative to the methods of other forensic sciences for numerous practical reasons, and it has been largely influenced by factors derived from the inception and evolution of this relatively new and rapidly changing field. Digital forensics...

Best practices in digital forensics include a procedure to sanitize media on which forensic images will be stored, thus eliminating potential challenges that contamination of the evidence may occur due to data that exist on the media prior to storing forensic images. This article describes a...