{"id":364,"date":"2025-08-08T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/?p=364"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:25:36","slug":"module-14-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/2025\/08\/08\/module-14-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 14 Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digital Forensics | Davin Teo | TEDxHongKongSalon\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pf-JnQfAEew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Watch this video and think about how the careers of digital forensics investigators relate to the social sciences. Write a journal entry describing what you think about the speaker\u2019s pathway to his career.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The career of digital forensics investigators relates to social sciences in several<br>important ways, because their work doesn\u2019t just involve analyzing data and technology;<br>it also requires understanding human behavior, motivation, and societal context. The<br>most significant aspect, in my opinion, is that investigators often rely on psychological<br>theories to interpret digital evidence and help profile cybercriminals, which aids in their<br>investigations. Investigators also need to comprehend how a victim&#8217;s online actions may<br>have rendered them vulnerable and facilitated their exploitation, which can be attributed<br>to the Routine Activity Theory. Since many cybercrimes involve social engineering,<br>which exploits human trust and behavior, it&#8217;s important that investigators understand<br>how people interact digitally, which requires a social science lens. This can include<br>analyzing their emails, text messages, or social media accounts.<br>I think the speaker\u2019s pathway into digital forensics investigation is intriguing. He says<br>there weren&#8217;t many courses in the field then, so &#8220;you either fell into it or got put into it.&#8221;<br>This path is interesting to think about because most careers like this require formal<br>training or degrees to get into now, and he kind of just stumbled upon it and got offered<br>an opportunity to work in the first national digital forensics practice in Australia without<br>any background knowledge in the field. With all that being said, hearing his story gives<br>me hope that I can be successful in the field of cybersecurity, given that I\u2019m coming from<br>a military background as a mechanic without any formal experience or training in<br>technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The career of digital forensics investigators relates to social sciences in severalimportant ways, because their work doesn\u2019t just involve analyzing data and technology;it also requires understanding human behavior, motivation, and societal context. Themost significant aspect, in my opinion, is that investigators often rely on psychologicaltheories to interpret digital evidence and help profile cybercriminals, which aids&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/2025\/08\/08\/module-14-journal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":9},"categories":[9],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bakarrigrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}