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The Path to Capturing Digital Evidence

Digital evidence plays an increasingly important role in investigations. Videos, still images, audio recordings, digital tags of physical evidence, social media content, PDF documents and other forms of digital evidence have changed the way investigators uncover truth.

While digital evidence is invaluable to investigations, it does present a set of challenges:

The growing amount of data from digital evidence, for instance, is huge. Some investigations can include hundreds of gigabytes of information — where do you store it all? How do you find the two or three key pieces of evidence you need? How do you request and retrieve further evidence from the community or 3rd party sources and leverage this evidence to explain what happened? How do you effectively share evidence with other agencies or lawyers?