Forensic Control

Guides

An ever-changing digital landscape, wide-spread use of cloud services and a move to home and hybrid working is behind the biggest update to Cyber Essentials since its launch in 2014.
Computer forensics, sometimes known as digital forensics, is undertaken by trained examiners who pull data (search histories, purchase records, time logs and more) from devices including, but not limited to: computers, tablets, and smartphones.
As computer forensics experts we are bound to abide by the ACPO Principles of Digital Based Evidence, ACPO being the Association of Chief Police Officers. ACPO provides a set of Guidelines for Computer Based Evidence, and they come with a suite of four essential principles. Here they are.