[DFSci] New SWGDE Documents - Quallity Assurance and SOP

[Baker, Dave]

I am passing this along as the request of a member of the SWGDE:

The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) is pleased to announce the publication of two very important documents to assist agencies with incorporating crucial quality assurance procedures into their digital forensic laboratories: the model Quality Assurance Manual and Standard Operating Procedures Manual for public use.  

These two manuals were developed in response to the needs of digital forensic laboratories that don't have the resources for in-house development of quality assurance programs.  They provide for off-the-shelf, easily tailored documents that can be utilized to begin to establish quality standards in the performance of digital forensic examinations.

Although initially developed for a one-person laboratory, they are written so a lab of any size can utilize them.

SWGDE acknowledges the invaluable contribution to Forensic Science by ASCLD/LAB and the ISO/IEC standards bodies, and specifically, has drawn on their guidelines and practices in the development of these manuals.  

These manuals are very much an initial DRAFT release and SWGDE recognizes that modifications will be desired, if not required.  However, it was decided best to release them in DRAFT form as it is important to SWGDE to gain community participation and acceptance in such a large endeavor.  These manuals are living documents and as such, will be updated on a continual basis.  

To view or download the manuals, please visit the SWGDE Documents web site at http://www.swgde.org/documents/released-for-public-comment/swgde-qam-and-sop-manuals.  Comments from the digital forensic community are greatly appreciated and where applicable will be incorporated into the manual.  SWGDE requests your comments be sent to secretary at swgde.org <mailto:secretary at swgde.org>  and include: page number, section number, specific sentence and suggested wording change.   

Sincerely,
Dave B.
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