What is Digital Forensics? Everything You Need to Know: How It Supports Cybersecurity, Incident Response, and Compliance

This document is a comprehensive primer on digital forensics, describing what digital forensics is, its legal and investigative purpose, the four core investigation phases (search and seizure, data acquisition, data analysis, and documentation/reporting), and specialized subfields such as memory, network, database, and mobile forensics. It also addresses forensic readiness for third-party incidents, best practices for preserving and handling digital evidence, and mentions SecurityScorecard’s related services and acquisition of LIFARS.