What are Computer Forensics Specialist and their duties ?

Computer Forensics Specialist is the person responsible for doing computer forensics. They will take several careful steps to identify and attempt to retrieve possible evidence that may exist on a subject computer system.

So, What are the duties of the Computer Forensics Specialist?

1. Protect the subject computer system during the forensic examination from any possible alteration, damage, data corruption, or virus introduction.
2. Discover all files on the subject system. This includes existing normal files, deleted yet remaining files, hidden files, password-protected files, and encrypted files.
3. Recover all (or as much as possible) of discovered deleted files.
4. Reveal (to the extent possible) the contents of hidden files as well as temporary or swap files used by both the application programs and the operating system.
5. Accesses (if possible and if legally appropriate) the contents of protected or encrypted files.
6. Analyze all possibly relevant data found in special (and typically inaccessible) areas of a disk. 
7. Print out an overall analysis of the subject computer system, as well as a listing of all possibly relevant files and discovered file data.
8. Provide expert consultation and/or testimony, as required.