Forensic Computing

tntcoder said:
Say you are well established with 20 years experience in forensic work, what's the top level of pay you can expect in the private sector?
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It depends. Mainly on what you actually do. Assuming you report complex, serious cases, about £45k as a guess. But most will get less than that, and simple reporting will be about £25k. That's mainstream forensics - I don't know what the figures are for computer forensics, but that last pay-rates I had for West Yorkshire's computer crime unit were about £28k tops. I'd expect private people to make rather more - possibly a lot more.


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huh btec jesus ... i missed out :( If i remember one of the presentations your starting wage as a junior analyst is 22-25k depending on where abouts you are in the country respectively
 
The Mad Rapper said:
My boss earns £150K+

I earn a lot more than £45K.

So a tidy sum.
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Holy moly, your boss earns a lot :eek:. I have a few questions...

What is it that your boss does? (MD, Owner of company, etc)

How much experience do you and your boss have?

What certs/quals do you and your boss have?

Are the amount of jobs in forensics widespread or confined to certain areas (the south)?

Do you enjoy what you do?

This thread really is awesome. Should be a sticky!
 
The Mad Rapper - It just occured to me to check your profile to send you a PM, but there is no mail addy. How come PM's arent allowed?
 
Frank Butcher said:
I currently work for a large Police force and have just applied for the post of a Digital Forensic Analyst. I have done a week in the department and some of the stuff you are subjected to is shocking but its my dream job realistically, you can just see how involved and interested the whole team are in the job.
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Do you have any info about the job, i.e job spec, role, requirements etc? Im not after the job, just curious :D

kt-own said:
The Mad Rapper - It just occured to me to check your profile to send you a PM, but there is no mail addy. How come PM's arent allowed?
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You can send an email via trust
 
Frank Butcher said:
I currently work for a large Police force and have just applied for the post of a Digital Forensic Analyst. I have done a week in the department and some of the stuff you are subjected to is shocking but its my dream job realistically, you can just see how involved and interested the whole team are in the job.
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That's a really good reason I would not want to work for a forensic team doing police investigations, too much chance of having to do work with, lets say, highly objectionable material.
Btw, for those looking there is another public body who have quite a forensic group internally, revenue and customs, could be worth looking that way for work.
 
kt-own said:
What is it that your boss does? (MD, Owner of company, etc)
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He is the Head of Department.

kt-own said:
How much experience do you and your boss have?
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I have almost 9 years experiance, I'm not sure about him.

kt-own said:
What certs/quals do you and your boss have?
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I can only answer for myself, but numerous forensic computing courses from the National White Collar Crime Centre (NW3C), Paraben, Encase, NSLEC, SANS, RMA Shrivingham & IACIS.

kt-own said:
Are the amount of jobs in forensics widespread or confined to certain areas (the south)?
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The majority of public and private sector positions are in London and the South East. Then the next big area is around Birmingham and the Midlands.

kt-own said:
Do you enjoy what you do?
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I do now as I have recently moved to a new company :D
 
The Mad Rapper said:
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This is why I love ocuk. Some really informed professionals. And really cool that they give up their time to help, too. :D

The Mad Rapper - Did you do a degree in CS? If not, what degree would you recommend to start off with?

Is there a lot of programming involved in what you do? I can do some basic js, but fail at most harder languages.
 
kt-own said:
This is why I love ocuk. Some really informed professionals. And really cool that they give up their time to help, too. :D

The Mad Rapper - Did you do a degree in CS? If not, what degree would you recommend to start off with?

Is there a lot of programming involved in what you do? I can do some basic js, but fail at most harder languages.
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I have no degree. I left school at 16, served 14 years in the Army (Royal Military Police) and left 5 years ago to become a civilian.

A university education is absolutely not required, just a natural curiosity and willingness to learn ;)

Programming helps, but is not needed. I can code a little VB, Small Talk, PHP and that's it. I don't use that for work though.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
I have no degree. I left school at 16, served 14 years in the Army (Royal Military Police) and left 5 years ago to become a civilian.

A university education is absolutely not required, just a natural curiosity and willingness to learn ;)

Programming helps, but is not needed. I can code a little VB, Small Talk, PHP and that's it. I don't use that for work though.
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I think I'm going to get some of the books that Knowlesy posted on the first page and read into it as much as I can.

Have you ever thought about setting up your own business in forensics?
 
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