Question

A budget of $4000 has been set aside to build out a machine capable of running forensic images. the team leader tells you to spec out what your machine will need. Research the web and put together a machine to be used as a forensics workstation. You will need to use the allotted budget ($3500). Write a purchase order along with a brief explanation

Answer 1

Hello,

Total budget : $4000

Budget utilisation : $3500

Purpose of budget usage: Procurement of machines for setup of forensics workstation

General description of a Purchase Order

A Purchase Order (PO) is a document that is issued by the buyer to seller confirming an order for products or services. It contains the details of product or services to be purchased , their quantity and the agreed price.

Purchase Order for procurement of machines for setup of forensics workstation

PURCHASE ORDER

Company Name :                                                                                            Date:

Complete address :                                                                                        PO No.:

Phone : E mail address :

PO No:

Vendor	Ship To
Company Name Complete address Phone Fax	Company Name Complete address Phone Fax

Item no.	Product Name	Note No.	Qty	Unit Price ($)	Total ($)
1.	Disk Duplicator and diagnosis Tool	1	1	500	500
2.	Hard drive forensic Imagining Tool	2	1	400	400
3.	Forensic Analysis Software	3	1	400	400
4.	Mobile Forensic data recovery software and hardware	4	1	400	400
5.	Online digital forensic suite	5	1	200	200
6.	Steganography Analysis Software	6	1	100	100
7.	Forensic Password Recovery Toolkit	7	1	150	150
8.	High end forensic server	8	1	500	500
9.	High configuration desktop computer	9	15	30	450
10.	Laptop	10	1	50	50
11.	External Hard Disk of 5TB	11	2	40	80
12.	All in one write blocking kit	12	1	15	15
13.	UPS 5 KVA	13	1	5	5
14.	All in one printer	14	5	50	250
				Total	3500

Detailed description of equipment’s:

Note no.	Product Name	Description
1.	Disk Duplicator and diagnosis Tool	It is used for imaging, retrieving the deleted data from hard drives. As per forensic chain of custody investigator should not work on original evidence because digital media is very fragile so keeping that evidence intact investigator has to make one copy of original media for case investigation
2.	Hard drive forensic Imagining Tool	Professional Forensic Field Station for Data Capture. It can mage, clone or browse many types of source devices, including SATA, IDE, USB, iSCSI, or LAN.
3.	Forensic Analysis Software	After making the duplicate copy of evidence investigator has to do indexing and analysis on duplicate hard drive. In that process this software plays very important role. Few activities are listed as:  Retrieving the deleted data  Identification of encrypted, corrupted and deleted information
4.	Mobile Forensic data recovery software and hardware	It is a device which is used for the recovery of data from different types of mobile phones, tablets pc etc. one can recover incoming, outgoing and missed call details, incoming and outgoing SMS, Phonebook details etc.
5.	Online digital forensic suite	This tool is designed for retrieving the data remotely from a remote system. This software is useful when the examiner doesn't have good access of digital evidence where the investigation needs to be done.
6.	Steganography Analysis Software	It is the state-of-the-art steganography detection and extraction capabilities that address the needs of computer forensic examiners. It can be used for performing rapid field triage for the presence and use of steganography, conducting a complete steganalysis examination on seized media, and detecting the use of steganography on enterprise networks
7.	Forensic Password Recovery Toolkit	It is used for breaking the password of document files (MS Word, Power point, Excel, Pdf etc.) and password of email clients (MS Outlook, Lotus etc.)
8.	High end forensic server	This edition is a high power, great value forensic platform for all professional forensic investigators. It was designed with today’s forensic investigator in mind; it combines a high-speed multi-core processor and ultra-fast memory with a high performance SSD to give you the most performance at a great value.
9.	High configuration desktop computer	It is a computer system with latest features (windows 7 or above operating system, core i5or above processor, 500 GB or above Hard Disk, 8 GB or higher RAM etc.) for the better and rapid analysis.
10.	Laptop	3rd Generation Intel® Core I 7 or better, 16 GB or higher, Integrated Graphics, 500GB 7200rpm SATA or higher, Integrated Gigabit Ethernet.
11.	External Hard Disk of 5TB	It is a digital storage media for the imaging of hard disk and storage of data retrieved from different hard disks.
12.	All in one write blocking kit	These are used to make the sample hard disk write protected or read only mode for imaging the hard disk to maintain the integrity of data and protect the hash value of the hard disk.
13.	UPS 5 KVA	UPS is for electricity back up to avoid the interruption in work (imaging and analysis of hard disk).
14.	All in one printer	All in one laser printer

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