Question

Suppose you are a director for a system forensics company. Develop a list of ethical guidelines that you would publish for your employees based on ethical standards from appropriate sources, such as professional associations. Justify why the items in your guidelines are necessary to add to the code.

Answer 1

Forensics companies are basically the companies that perform preservation, identification, extraction of the computer evidence which can be used in the court of law. The various ethical guidelines that we can publish for the employees are listed below:

1) For employees its required that they accurately represent his or her education details, experience and area of expertise, its help the organization to get the right person for right job.
2) Employees should provide the commitment of continuous learning of new forensic technologies and various forensic disciplines, its help n resolving the forensic case easily.
3) Employees shoulde use as well as promote the latest technologies in the forensic investigation, its required because with lastest technologies, we get better results in less time.
4) Keep secret of the forensic evidence and put them in a save that no body can see or even tamper it.
5) Guideline should be made so that company employees do fair, full and the unbaised investigation of forensic evidence.
6) There should be a guideline to provide complete forensic analysis data in the reports, with this its easy to come to the conclusion.
7) Employees should also document as well as notify the senior management of the company in case of any adverse events like unintended mistake