A Guide to Forensic Testimony ─ The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony As an Expert Technical Witness

Information technology can be a significant factor in legal proceedings. This guide addresses the specific needs of the IT expert witness, overviewing basic witness responsibilities and explaining how digital evidence and computer forensics are altering litigation. The guide describes legal criteria established to determine the qualifications and abilities of a technical expert to stand as witness, and looks at the kinds of cases and problems likely to be encountered in digital forensic assignments. Smith is an Assistant United States Attorney. Bace is a network security consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fred Chris Smith is an experienced trial attorney who directed economic crime prosecutions for four consecutive New Mexico state attorneys general. For nearly twenty years he has also provided education and training programs throughout the country and abroad, in digital evidence and computer forensics. He has been involved as an attorney, business advisor, and teacher with information technology and legal professionals who are encountering the rapidly changing problems presented by electronic evidence in criminal cases, in the investigation of corporate network fraud and abuse, and in civil litigation. He currently serves as an Assistant United States Attorney.

Rebecca Gurley Bace is a recognized network security authority and consultant. Her career includes work with the National Security Agency, where her contribution to building the national intrusion detection research community earned her an NSA Distinguished Leadership Award. After the NSA, she became the Deputy Security Officer for the Computing Information and Communications Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she was responsible for one of the world's most complex security-critical computing environments. She is currently President/CEO of Infidel, Inc., and a Venture Partner for Trident Capital. Bace is the author of Intrusion Detection (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 2000).

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