cyber laws
In the figure, it states that even before companies can define their policies, they must first be aware of the cyber laws in the country. This will ensure that the policies that are implemented are in strict adherence to the stipulated laws. For instance, in the USA, the CAN-PAM Act dictates that all business that uses email should ensure that the email is used for commercial purposes and that people’s email addresses should not be sold or transferred to other firms. As a result, companies bear the burden of ensuring the email is secured to protect both the customer information and the company data.
The fist prevention measure is to implement policies and strategies such as email encryption and implementation of Fair Information Practices that will work to uphold email integrity. At this point, even before any security breach is detected, it is vital to assimilate digital forensics as one of the strategies. Digital forensics, in this case, will help in identifying and analyzing email network vulnerabilities say in the servers, and it will provide ways to alleviate the issue before cybercriminals take advantage of it.
When there is a breach in email, digital forensics is a common and effective process that can be integrated to form part of the cybersecurity and incidence response. This process extracts, processes, analyzes, preserves, documents and presents computer evidence using specific techniques and tools that investigate the cybercrime (Pandey, Tripathi, Kapil, Singh, Khan & Agrawal, 2020). In this, the forensic team conducts a thorough investigation in the company’s systems, networks and computers to identify what the violation is as well as to track the hackers and bring them to justice.
Other primary objectives of digital forensics include that it helps in estimating the impact caused by the criminals, it helps to depict what the criminal’s motive was and it seeks to recover any deleted email files, calendars or contacts. Since the process follows a set of clearly defined procedures, the digital evidence obtained is kept safe and it is not corrupted. More so, a strict chain of custody that digital forensics adheres to, ensures the evidence is properly preserved and in the right hands at all times. After all these objectives are met, the firm’s email communication is secured and strengthened such that recurrent cases do not transpire, and if they do, mitigation is swift.
Therefore, it is crucial that digital forensics, particularly email forensic, is implemented with immediate effect to ensure the integrity of email communications is upheld. It is also paramount that the experts in digital forensics meet several requirements and these are technical aptitude, digital comprehension, knowledge of cybersecurity, law and investigation. An in-depth understanding of cyber laws is indeed essential because the team can then device investigative procedures that are in full compliance with the law.