Forensic Computing

Throughout this book you will find that we have consistently referred to the term “Forensic Computing” for what is often elsewhere called “Computer Forensics”. In the UK, however, when we first started up, the name “Computer Forensics” had been registered to a commercial company that was operating in this field and we felt that it was not appropriate for us to use a name that carried with it commercial connotations. Hence our use of the term “Forensic Computing”. Having said that, however, we will need on occasion to refer to “Computer Forensics”, particularly when quoting from overseas journals and papers which use the term, and our use in such circumstances should then be taken to be synonymous with that of “Forensic Computing” and not as a reference to the commercial company.