Incidents and regulations

• Chain of custody: The process of documenting each person that has possession of an object at all times.
• Paper trail: Documents that show what a record of someone’s activities.
• Enforcement will always work on a copy of drive (data integrity and preservation).
• Bit-by-bit copy: Recovers deleted data (rewritable sectors).
• Documentation of incident: Information about the incident.
• EULA: Defines software use and states that the vendor has limited liability for product faults and damages.
• DRM: Restrict usage or proliferation of copyrighted software and products.
• Open-source license: Free to edit and modify the source code.
• Personally identifiable information: Information used to uniquely identify a person.
• GDPR: Regulation that deals with data protection and privacy of personal data.
• HIPAA: Governs the protection of all kinds of health information.
• Data retention requirements: Laws governing the length of data storage.