Watch this video and think about how the career of digital forensics investigators relate to the social sciences. Write a journal entry describing what you think about the speaker’s pathway to his career.

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Digital forensic investigators use information from social media platforms and digital communication to understand social connections, human behavior, and the context of digital evidence in the broader social environment. In order to provide a comprehensive picture of a suspect or circumstance, they usually employ sociological principles during an investigation. This includes looking at relationships, communication patterns, and online communities in order to construct a case narrative.

I think the speakers pathway to his career is something that happens to a lot of people, where they start out with one job and then eventually learn something new while in that job, the way he started with accounting but switched to cybersecurity.