November 6, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I was going through a job portal to have a look what market demands in this financial crisis market. There i found a job requiring SQL 2K5 skills for data and database forensics. Not much information was given in the advertisement. But eligibility criteria seems to be somewhat database analyst and administrator. i am wondering
1. what comes under data and database forensics. Haven't heard about it before.
2. What would be job profile of the candidate and i can't figure out roles and responsibilities of the candidate.
3. I can understand that one can analyse data and forensics can be involved in it, but how is forensics involved in databases?
Has anybody did similar kind of role or is someone aware of these roles.
Forensics itself is very interesting and if it is in now databases, i'll love to go into it.
November 7, 2008 at 2:25 am
Hi,
I would have thought that forensics in a database sense would be investigating data breaches and the like. Having a quick scout about, WikiPedia provided this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Forensics
HTH
November 7, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Thanks Adrian. That link gave me a little insight of what is database forensics.
Even i was of the same opinion as you said, something related to breaches. But was keen to know what kind of breaches and how experts hunt for it, handle it and the outcomes when a breach is found.
Have you noticed one thing on that link that all the forensic database references were from Oracle. Non of them were pointing to SQL Server. It would be interesting to know if SQL Server is also involved in these kind of forensic activities.
November 8, 2008 at 9:56 am
I think all of us have done some of this with root cause analysis or backtracking through logs to find out what happened. Data has an interesting aspect in that people are changing it all the time and you might need to try and dig through transaction logs as well.
Sounds like a neat job.
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