Assignment
Your team is tasked with analyzing and documenting requirements for constructing a standard computer forensics laboratory for a recently launched company XYZ, Inc.. XYZ, Inc is experiencing extremely rapid growth with over 100 employees and continuing to hire new talent. XYZ specializes in cybersecurity related to the critical infrastructure industry. Your teams analysis should take into consideration physical, technical, and legal requirements related to the computer forensics laboratory. In addition, you should consider potential lab certification requirements in this requirements analysis. After your requirements analysis is completed your team will develop a forensic laboratory proposal for the company. This proposal should include physical, environmental, technical hardware/software, and personnel recommendations. The proposal should also include the estimated initial and projected 3 year annual costs for this new computer forensics laboratory. The budget costs should include physical operating environment, technical assets, and personnel salary costs. The company has recently received venture funding specially for this tasking and its initial budget limitations for this forensics laboratory are as follows: Initial start-up costs $750,000 Maximum annual three year operating/update costs $575,000 per year.