IDC PeerScape: Lessons Learned from Digital Forensics Implementations
This IDC PeerScape culls best practice advice from digital forensics practitioners wrestling with challenges related to the volume, variety, and velocity of data involved in criminal investigations today. "Secure, interoperable, real-time, user-friendly data collection, analysis, and sharing is critical to the timely pursuit of justice. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies rely on modernized tools and processes to meet their mission, but this goal is becoming increasingly trying in light of agency's struggles with the data deluge," said Alison Brooks, research vice president, Worldwide Public Safety, IDC.
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- IDC PeerScape Figure
- Executive Summary
- Peer Insights
- Practice 1: Leverage Automation to Manage Growing Data Volumes
- Challenge
- Examples
- Department of Justice
- January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol Riot Investigation
- Project VIC
- Guidance
- Practice 2: Use Advanced Analytical Tools to Prevent Overreach
- Challenge
- Examples
- Crown Prosecution Service, London
- Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Strategy
- Southern Alberta Child Exploitation Unit
- Using Advanced Analytics and Tools to Mitigate Overreach
- Guidance
- Practice 3: Invest in Multiple Tools to Manage Expanding Data Sources
- Challenge
- Example
- Project VIC
- Guidance
- Practice 4: Document and Share Organizational Knowledge Culled by the Investigative Community
- Challenge
- Examples
- INTERPOL
- Seattle Police Department
- CSAM Investigative Best Practices
- Guidance
- Practice 5: Proactively and Openly Engage Vendors to Improve Product Capabilities
- Challenge
- Example
- Georgia Bureau of Investigations
- Guidance
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