Question

Determine whether or not you believe certifications in systems forensics are necessary and explain why you believe this to be the case. Compare and contrast certifications and on-the-job training and identify which you believe is more useful for a system forensics professional. Provide a rationale with your response.

Answer 1

Certifications are not only to ensure that someone is awesome at their job, but they enusures the minimal qualifications for someone in any field.Each filed sould requires minimum basic information about their duty.
For the sake of the profession, every field has to ensure that a basic knowledge exists for an entry level individual. For example doctors , engineers all should pass entry level tests.

Computer forensics is the practice of collecting, analysing and reporting on digital data in a way that is legally admissible. It can be used in the detection and prevention of crime and in any dispute where evidence is stored digitally. Computer forensics follows a similar process to other forensic disciplines, and faces similar issues.

The responsibilties of system forensics are deals with retriving digital data, some illegal threats and they need high range analytical skills. There are several system crimes and forensic methods that need to be applied.

The ability of handling come with cirtification only.They should have certified experiance. On the job training teaches few things only. The analytical skills comes with experiance not with teaching.

The role of the forensics is to recover data like documents, photos and e-mails from computer hard drives and other data storage devices that have been deleted, damaged.Analysts often work on cases involving in other types of crime in order to find evidence of illegal activity.They may also use their expertise in a corporate setting to protect computers from infiltration, determine how a computer was broken into or recover lost files.This analsis all comes with experiance and certification.