As observed in our last installment of this series, “Can Certainty in Digital Forensics Be Automated?”, it’ll probably be awhile yet before digital forensics tools can demonstrate the certainty of their results through, say, a likelihood ratio.
So how are digital forensic practitioners addressing confidence in their results? Again, quality management practices such as tool testing can mitigate challenges with putting guidelines and SOPs into practice.
But that’s only one part of the confidence equation. Digital forensic practitioners also need to be able to communicate their results in a way that judges and juries can easily understand.