Cmit 424: digital forensics analysis and application (if you have

Detailed Assignment Description for CMIT 424 Research Paper
The CMIT 424 Research Paper is to be a discussion of why forensic tools need to be validated, how they are evaluated, what information is provided in a tools validation report, and how such reports can be used by forensic examiners and by attorneys (both prosecuting and defense).
You are also required to read and summarize a digital forensics tool validation report, from NIST, for a specific hardware or software product which is used as a digital forensics tool.
Finally, you must analyze and report on how a digital forensics tools validation report could be used to defend or attack the findings from a report of a digital forensics examination.
Here are some useful URLs to help you get started with your forensic tools validation research:

http://www.cftt.nist.gov/
http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usab5601.pdf
http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/itlbulletin.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsTC.html