Project 5: Digital Forensics Analysis  
Step 4: Digital Forensics Research Paper   

Now that you have learned the basics of digital forensics analysis  and methodology, and have experienced one of the common forensic tools,  use the material presented in this project as well as research you have  conducted outside of the course materials to write a research paper that  addresses the following:

1. digital forensics methodology
2. the importance of using forensic tools to collect and analyze evidence (e.g., FTK Imager and EnCase)
3. hashing in the context of digital forensics
4. How do you ensure that the evidence collected has not been tampered  with (i.e., after collection)? Why and how is this important to prove in  court?

The deliverables for this project are as follows:

1. Digital Forensics Research Paper: This should be a five-page  double-spaced Word document with citations in APA format. The page count  does not include diagrams or tables.