ISO/IEC 27041:2015
Clause 5: Method development and assurance – ISO/IEC 27041:2015

ISO/IEC 27041:2015 5.5.1: 5.5.1 General principles of requirements

Before a process for an examination is designed, a proper requirement set is produced, agreed with the client and recorded to good practice, derived from the requirements of the whole investigation and covering functional and non-functional needs. Each statement is necessary, free of any implementation choice, clear in meaning, complete, single in subject and consistent with the rest. Requirements can be grouped by type: functional (tasks, inputs and outputs), performance (extent, quality and conditions), interface (interaction with outside systems and between parts, people included), process (local law, procedure and administration) and non-functional (portability, reliability, maintainability, security, safety, efficiency, wellbeing). The set also states the operating limits expected for the evidence and processes (for example largest file size, fewest and most input values). Because a fresh set may be needed per case, reusable predefined atomic stages that take case parameters are preferred to monolithic designs, so that case-specific validation is confined to the parameters (a keyword filter is validated once; the choice of keywords, and the variants they miss, is what each case must check). The incident and the limits of the investigation are defined, the evidence sources and questions to answer identified, and risks to the investigation, people and systems identified; the team then derives requirements for each examination, analysis and process (see ISO/IEC 27042).

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