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Is Forensic Computing A Profession? Revisiting An Old Debate In A New Field, Bernd C. Stahl
Is Forensic Computing A Profession? Revisiting An Old Debate In A New Field, Bernd C. Stahl
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Forensic Computing is a new and quickly developing field. It is in the process of becoming an academic discipline or sub-discipline with all the features from full undergraduate and postgraduate course provision to conferences and journals. An important question in this process of turning into an established discipline is whether it will coincide with the recognition of the graduates as professionals. This paper hopes to stimulate the debate as to whether forensic computing is or should be a discipline. In order to approach this question, the paper will discuss the concept of forensic computing including the most salient topics of …