Disucssion 1: The Importance of Reports

• Explain in your own words the importance of report writing and why you believe it is critical to the system forensics industry. Discuss the need for forensic reports when testifying as an expert witness.

• Determine what you perceive to be the most difficult task in writing a system forensics report and explain why you believe this is the case. Decide whether or not software-generated reports assist with this specific portion of the report writing process and provide a rationale with your response.

Disucssion 2: The Witness

• Compare and contrast the roles of a technical / scientific witness and an expert witness. Determine which you believe to be the most important when it comes to a case and whether or not as a juror you would consider one's testimony over another's.

• From the e-Activity, summarize the selected case. Examine how the expert witness was used in the case and determine if his / her testimony played a significant role in the case and its decision.

**E-Activity - Use the Internet to research and select at least one article discussing a case using a digital forensic expert witness.

Disucssion 3: Organizational Ethics

• Determine what role the professional organization should play in the ethical makeup of an investigator and / or expert witness and explicate whether or not you believe an organization's code of ethics could negatively affect an investigator and / or expert witness.

• Identify three ethical responsibilities expected from persons such as attorneys, the court, and others, when protecting an expert witness in a case. Determine how they should protect the expert witness and how unethical actions by others could negatively affect an expert witness. Provide a rationale with your response.

Disucssion 4: Ethical Dilemmas

• Suppose you are a director for a system forensics company. Develop a list of ethical guidelines that you would publish for your employees based on ethical standards from appropriate sources, such as professional associations. Justify why the items in your guidelines are necessary to add to the code.

• Create a scenario that presents an ethical dilemma for an expert witness. Determine why this would be a dilemma for the expert witness and how you believe he / she should handle such a scenario in an ethical manner.