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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288683
Pages 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
Profile icon Gerard Johansen

Legal aspects


As we saw in the first chapter, a proper incident response involves a number of individuals from a variety of disciplines. This highlights one of the key misconceptions often held, that incident response is strictly a technology matter. One realm that incident response falls heavily into is the legal arena. There are a number of laws and regulations that directly impact an organization's incident response capability ranging from breach notification to privacy. These laws both provide a framework for governments to prosecute offenders as well as providing strict rules concerning such topics as how evidence is handled and presented in court.

Laws and regulations

In the middle of the 1980s, as computer crime started to become more prevalent, jurisdictions began crafting laws to address the ever-increasing instances of cyber-crime. In the United States, for example, federal criminal law has specific statutes that deal directly with criminal activity utilizing a computer:

  • 18 USC §...
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