Blog #6: Computer Forensics and Identity Theft

Identity theft is such a big issue in today’s society that I believe literally every single individual business must see this as an issue and deal with it. Identity theft could cause customers to completely lose faith in a product and stop buying it. A company who can be held responsible for not preventing identity theft would also be torn apart by the media and the public.
I would hope my application would use the official Apple App store, Verizon store, or the cell-phone carrier’s official store. These stores should be protected against identify fraud I’d think (and hope), so I’d expect this to help cut down on my worries on identify fraud. As a business owner, if I weren’t protected by the official store, would probably hire my own expert, since I find it to be that big of an issue.
Computer forensics I could only really see coming into play if my data was to all be lost. If my hard-drives/servers of customer data were to fail or get damaged, I’d most certainly need an expert to retrieve that data. The expert would hopefully be able to get the data back off the broken hard-drive so I wouldn’t lose any data.