Computer & Cyber Forensics: A Case Study of Ghana
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Computer and cyber forensics fundamental importance and concerns to all security agencies.Abstract
The study was to examine the importance for the study of computer and cyber forensics on the performance of the Ghanaian security agencies, namely the bureau of national investigations and the Ghana police service.(BNI)
Ghanaian security agencies with a case study at Ghana police service and bureau of national investigations. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is at the center of the world today. The applications and concepts, techniques, policies and implementation strategies to security services has become a subject of fundamental importance and concerns to all security agencies and indeed a prerequisite for local and global competitiveness. The purpose of the research is to assess and evaluate the impact of computer related crimes on the continent of Africa and especially Ghana in particular. The Bureau of National Investigations, (BNI), to find the positive and negative impact of ICT and its related contributions in the everyday life of Ghanaian security agencies, especially the BNI and GPS ones(once) to examine how ICT has helped reduce and prevent crime and also cost of identifying and preventing crimes thus to determine the efficient use of information technology to help fight corruption at workplaces, prevent and protect the country and its people from any kind fraud within or attached that will be launched on the Ghanaian soil using ICT.
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