Eoghan Casey
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- Known for
- Digital Evidence and Computer Crime (2000), CASE
Researcher and investigator who turned digital evidence into an academic discipline with a methodology, not just a pile of tools.
Casey wrote Digital Evidence and Computer Crime in 2000, when most police work still treated a hard drive like a binder full of paper. The book put words to questions that remain central to digital forensics: how to show that evidence hasn't been altered, how to reconstruct a chain of events, and how confident a conclusion really is.
He was for many years editor-in-chief of the journal Digital Investigation, and has been a driving force behind the DFRWS research conference and CASE, a shared format for exchanging investigation results between tools. More recently he has worked at the University of Lausanne. Less glamorous than breaking into systems, but it is the reason a court can trust a log file.