"I'm here! Now what?"

by Ken Pryor

"Working for a small police department in a rural area, my opportunities to do digital forensic work on real cases are much fewer and farther between than those who work in large departments or in the private sector. Once I had completed computer forensics training and acquired the necessary software, I was ready to go. Now what? There was no existing forensics unit in my department, so there was no caseload to jump into and no one there to work with. How to stay current and confident with my knowledge and skills, as well as my chosen tools?"

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