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History: SWGDE (The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence)

The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) brings together organizations involved in digital forensics to foster communication and ensure quality standards. Formed in 1998, SWGDE develops guidelines and standards for digital evidence recovery, preservation, and examination. SWGDE provides guidance to digital forensics professionals through over 40 published standards and best practices documents on topics like validation testing and quality assurance.

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History: SWGDE (The Scientific Working Group On Digital Evidence)

The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) brings together organizations involved in digital forensics to foster communication and ensure quality standards. Formed in 1998, SWGDE develops guidelines and standards for digital evidence recovery, preservation, and examination. SWGDE provides guidance to digital forensics professionals through over 40 published standards and best practices documents on topics like validation testing and quality assurance.

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SWGDE (The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence)

The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) brings together organizations actively engaged in
the field of digital and multimedia evidence to foster communication and cooperation as well as to ensure
quality and consistency within the forensic community.

History
Formed in 1998, the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence brings together law enforcement, academic,
and commercial organizations actively engaged in the field of digital forensics to develop cross-disciplinary
guidelines and standards for the recovery, preservation, and examination of digital evidence.

SWDGE Function

SWGDE provides guidance to the digital forensic community through the publication of standards, guidelines,
and best practices on its website. SWGDE also encourages a number of its published documents to be used by
standard developing organizations (e.g. ASTM International) in the creation of national and international
standards for digital and multimedia evidence. One such document that has become an ASTM standard is the
"Standard Practice for Computer Forensics" (ASTM E2763). Additionally, SWGDE may answer direct inquiries
using letters or position statements, which are also typically posted on the website.

Due to the rapidly evolving field of digital forensics, there is a great deal of debate regarding accreditation,
certification, and proficiency testing legislation for digital forensic labs, personnel, and tools. SWGDE does not
accredit, certify, approve, or qualify laboratories or individuals. SWGDE promotes the establishment and
maintenance of a robust quality system through the publication of relevant guidance documents and position
papers, such as, guidelines for validation testing and minimum requirements for quality assurance. SWGDE
documents seek to provide a framework for agencies to insert their own criteria and describe what should be
included in a protocol, while not requiring a particular format or content. SWGDE documents are freely
available to the community-at-large, with the goal that agencies wishing to create or improve digital evidence
programs will thoughtfully examine and consider their guidance. Documents are first published as a draft
version for comment from the public. This provides the public with an opportunity to provide feedback,
changes, and objections to any portion before the document becomes final. All feedback is reviewed and, when
accepted, incorporated before the document is published as a final version. SWGDE invites all interested
parties to review and comment on any published draft or final documents available through its website.
SWGDE has published over 40 guidance documents, including joint documents with SWGIT, since its inception.
In addition to releasing documents, SWGDE members disseminate best practices for law enforcement
professionals where digital and multimedia evidence is concerned.SWGDE invites all interested parties, via its
website, to review and comment on any published draft or final documents available.

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