null Pune January 2012 Meet

1. SC
Cyber Solutions
Investigative Abuses
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2. What is an investigation? SC
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• Application of physical science to law in the search for
truth in civil, criminal and social behavioural matters to
the end that injustice shall not be done to any member of
society.
• A systematic examination especially in order to extract,
process and interpret evidence with the ultimate aim of
discovering the ‘truth’.
• An investigation is often looked at as a solution, when it is
a tool used to identify what went wrong and how.
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3. Where, when and why is an SC
investigation carried out? Cyber Solutions
• When someone requests an investigation
• Into the area of request
• When a crime has been committed, imminent or
threatened
An investigation HAS to be requested and authorised by
the proper authority.
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4. How is an investigation carried out? SC
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• Understand and analyse the situation before beginning the
investigation
• Follow correct procedures to
– Assess
– Collect
– Analyze
– Preserve
– Report
• Maintain ‘Chain-of-Custody’ throughout the process
• Approach each case as initially isolated
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5. What can go wrong in an SC
investigation? Cyber Solutions
• Flawed readings
• Excess reference to other cases that look similar on the
surface
• Incorrect findings
• False positives
• Improper procedures
• Incomplete chain-of-custody
• Leaks
• Manipulations of information
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6. What are the factors that contribute to SC
flawed investigations? Cyber Solutions
INTERNAL
(Factors that can be at work within the investigating team)
• Lack of knowledge
• Carelessness
• Laziness
• Haste
• Ego
• Ideology
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7. What are the factors that contribute to SC
flawed investigations? Cyber Solutions
EXTERNAL
(Factors that can be at work on the investigation and/or the
investigating team)
• Money
• Threat / coercion
• Hacks
• Lack of security
• Blackmail
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8. Why would investigations be misused? SC
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• Monetary benefits
• Ideological benefits
• Coercion
• Ego
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9. For want of a nail… SC
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LEGAL LEVELS
The existing frameworks within which an investigation is
carried out -
• Indian Penal Code
• Criminal Procedure Code
• Evidence Act
• Information Technology Act
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10. For want of a horse… SC
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OPERATIONAL LEVELS
Procedures that maintain the confidentiality, integrity and
authenticity of an investigation -
• Investigative procedures
• Chain of custody
• Documentation
• Contracts
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11. … the Kingdom was lost? SC
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OPTIMUM LEVELS
Measures that could strengthen the investigations -
• Compartmentalization
• Stricter laws and punishment
• Financial penalization
• Legal blacklisting
• Stricter guidelines and standards
• Accountability
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12. SC
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