Computer Forensics

An incident of computer security or an illegal, unauthorized violation which implies computer systems and / or data-processing network.

Objectives:

• Assist the company to resolve the security issue.
  
  
• Confirm or cancel weither or not there was an incident.
  
  
• Promote the collection of vital information. 
  
  
• Establish controls to process information. (Organization)
  
  
• Protect privacy rights established by the laws and policies of the country. 
  
  
• Minimize downtimes. 
  
  
• Allow legal action against intruders. 
  
  
• Provide exact reports and useful recommendations. 
  
  
• Minimize the access and handling of the data-processing data by an intruder. 
  
  
• Protect the reputation and the credits of the company.
  
  
• Educate the persons in charge. 
  
  
• Prevent future intrusions by continuously improving information policies and knowledge of the personnel while taking in consideration past incidents.

Examples of incident of computer security:

• Theft of corporative secrets. 
  
  
• Spamming or harassing. 
  
  
• Unauthorized entry in the systems of the company. 
  
  
• Hijack (data, data-processing, credits, etc). 
  
  
• Possession or / and distribution of pornographic material. 
  
  
• Springboard for attack on another system. 
  
  
• Extortions 
  
  
• Any illegal action for which evidence can reside on an information processing system.