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Economic espionage and the protection of trade secrets have become increasingly important as domestic and international incidents of both have increased.

The Justice Department has a compiled report titled “Economic Espionage and Trade Secrets,” located at http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usab5705.pdf. You will find this report beneficial as you complete Assignment 2.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze two (2) issues that exist within a computer forensics investigation surrounding economic espionage and trade secrets, and explain the direct and indirect impact to an involved organization. Next, specify the related strategies that you, as a computer forensics investigator, would use in order to identify the security processes needed to complete your investigation but prevent disclosure of the trade secrets as a result of that investigation.
2. Determine the computer forensics investigation techniques that you would use in order to establish a potential link between economic espionage and the misappropriation of trade secrets. Describe the legal process that computer forensics investigators follow in the investigation and prosecution of trade secret misappropriation, while simultaneously protecting the related trade secrets from being disclosed in court.
3. Describe the major computer forensics complications introduced in the investigations and ultimately the court case if the criminal act of misappropriating trade secret(s) involves a foreign entity.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Discuss and explain the means of investigating trademark and copyright infringement, sexual harassment incidents, and child pornography and laws concerning those incidents.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in computer forensics.
• Write clearly and concisely about Computer Forensic Technology topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.