I am sure that you might have heard about mainframes and the career prospects they offer. Do you know about the specialty of mainframes? Mainframes are very large computers mainly used for running mission critical and complex applications involved in activities like bulk data processing, financial transactions etc.
The huge servers are capable of supporting immense number of applications and input/output devices to simultaneously serve any number of users by the partitioning of resources. That is, it serves as a centralized depository of data which is connected to the users through work stations or terminals. Read more…
If you are really interested in retrieving lost data from digital devices like hard discs and memory cards for crime investigation purpose, you can consider earning a computer forensics degree as federal agencies and other detective agencies recruited people who have knowledge about computers and trained them for specific tasks regarding to this particular field of forensics. There are many universities and colleges have started running specialized courses for this field of study. Read more…
In the world of digital forensics, the well prepared investigator needs a forensic toolkit. The tools that this person will use will help her or him gather evidence of white collar crime or fraud, document the evidence of the occurrence, and, perhaps, place that investigator on the witness stand for expert testimony in what ever legal proceedings come out of the process. The tools used by these investigators are primarily software tools, though there are a few hardware considerations as well. Read more…
So much of Computer Forensic work is associated with data recovery from hard disk drives, USB pens and other common data storage media. Even on the television data is generally seen only to be stored on a limited range of media. So what about tape? Probably the largest volume of data stored in the world is on tape, so it is of any value in forensic investigations and litigation work? Read more…
