Journal Entry 15

Digital forensics investigators play a crucial role in examining digital evidence to solve cybercrimes, identify suspects, and can bring this information to court to help with the legal side. Understanding human behavior and social dynamics is extremely important when it comes to digital forensics. Digital forensics often involves analyzing communication patterns, social interactions, knowledge of sociology, psychology, and criminology. The speaker’s pathway into his career is interesting. He started off in accounting that was looking for an IT person. As his career progressed he wanted to get more into IT. He eventually got the opportunity to work in Australia with a digital forensics firm. This is when he found what he really wanted to do. I find this interesting because most people who want to get into this don’t start in accounting, however, he found the right opportunities and took them. This led him into his career that he originally did not know he wanted to do.

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