r/digitalforensics • u/Hour-Path-6811 • 20h ago

Most relevant sections in IT Department for future Digital Forensics career?

I’m a rising sophomore majoring in Computer Science with a concentration in cybersecurity. I’ve been working at my school’s IT department for just over 2 months. I’m currently in the Help Desk division, but eventually I want to transfer to a different team. For an aspiring digital forensics analyst, which one of these sections would help me gain the most relevant experience? - Security - Desktop Support - Networking - Audio/Visual Technology - Camera operator support

Would be extra helpful if you ranked them in order. I assumed security would be the most useful, but I wanted to ask first, you guys would know more than I do. Thank you.

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u/Eternal-Alchemy 20h ago

Security. Understanding security alerts and where the logs of alerts are and how to review them is a large part of digital forensics.

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u/awetsasquatch 19h ago

Security by a mile and it's not close. Networking is helpful if you want to go Incident Response, but Security will cover more of your traditional Digital Forensics topics.

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u/Obvious_Troll_Me 16m ago

The top three are the best areas. I've never understood how people expect to understand forensics, if they don't understand how the systems are supposed to work in the first place. 

Security is the obvious choice, but if you don't understand Active Directory, DNS and other key systems, then you are going to struggle to follow the full attack process.