El rol de la auditoría forense ante los nuevos delitos informáticos tipificados en el actual código orgánico integral penal del Ecuador COIP, metodologías y herramientas a usar ante una evidencia digital.

Abstract

The goal of this project is to study and analyze by presenting and explaining about Computer Forensics, its definition and how we can find evidence of a cyber-crime through it. It is about the last six established in the current Penal Integral Organic Code specially; its methodology and the tools let to do a computer forensics investigation getting the identification of the different risks that are threats for the validity of the evidence, this should be presented on a justice court.

Besides, it is going to proceed to address the training of the experts or specialists, who investigate these crimes, the authorized organisms for the accreditation of thereof, and the legal repercussions that could arise in the practice of the profession as a computer expert.

The most popular tools available on the market will be reviewed, also necessary for gathering digital evidence, always taking into account that the harvest of evidence at a crime scene is one of the most critical and fundamental tasks in the investigation process, because said evidence must be identical to the original and the crime scene must remain unaltered. It is therefore necessary that the forensic investigator must know the available tools and which ones to utilize in each case.