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    Firms now have new legal obligations for electronic record management and privacy protection under laws like HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Electronic record management consists of policies, procedures, and tools for handling electronic records and data. Computer forensics scientifically examines electronic evidence from sources like hard drives, emails, and internet transactions to recover data that can be used in court while preserving its integrity. Risk assessment is important to determine which assets need protection and which are vulnerable.

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    Firms now have new legal obligations for electronic record management and privacy protection under laws like HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Electronic record management consists of policies, procedures, and tools for handling electronic records and data. Computer forensics scientifically examines electronic evidence from sources like hard drives, emails, and internet transactions to recover data that can be used in court while preserving its integrity. Risk assessment is important to determine which assets need protection and which are vulnerable.

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    Firms now have new legal obligations for electronic record management and privacy protection under laws like HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Electronic record management consists of policies, procedures, and tools for handling electronic records and data. Computer forensics scientifically examines electronic evidence from sources like hard drives, emails, and internet transactions to recover data that can be used in court while preserving its integrity. Risk assessment is important to determine which assets need protection and which are vulnerable.

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    Firms now have new legal obligations for electronic record management and privacy protection under laws like HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Electronic record management consists of policies, procedures, and tools for handling electronic records and data. Computer forensics scientifically examines electronic evidence from sources like hard drives, emails, and internet transactions to recover data that can be used in court while preserving its integrity. Risk assessment is important to determine which assets need protection and which are vulnerable.

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    Legal and Regulatory Requirements for Electronic Records

    Protection of data from abuse, exposure and unauthorized access.


    - Firms from new legal obligation for electronic record management and document
    retention as well as for privacy protection.
    - ERM consist of policies, procedures and tools for managing the relation,
    distribution and storage of electronic records.

    Laws:-
    1. HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996)
    2. Gramm- Leach- Billey Act 1999
    3. Sarbanes- Oxley Act 2002

    Electronic Evidence and Computer Forensics


    - Information from printed or type written, computer data stored on portable floppy
    disk, CDs, external drives, computer hard disk, email, instant messages, e-
    commerce, transaction over the internet are example of electronic evidence.
    - Computer forensic is the scientific collection, examination, authentication,
    preservation and analysis of data held on a retrieve from computer storage media in
    such a way that information can be used as evidence in a court of law.

    It deals with the following problems


    Recovery data from computers while preserving evidential integrity.
    Securely storing and handling recovered electronic data.
    Finding significant information in a large volume of electronic data.
    Presenting the information to a court of law.

    7.6 Risk Assessment


    - Before an organization comments resources to control it must know which assets
    require protection & which assets are vulnerable.

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