Questions concerning computer forensics

[Joe Lindsay]

I am currently a senior in college and I am looking to go into computer 
forensics.  Right now i am currently teaching myself some of the tehniques 
used in doing Win2k and some *nix investigation.  I am a computer science 
and information systems major.  I just have some questions about computer 
forensics in general.

1.  How closely related are computer forensics and security?

2.  I have done palm programming, and I read an article about palms being 
used to prosecute.  Is there a growing need for palm forensics?

3.  I have some tools, but they are from sourceforge.  Are there any 
freeware or trialware available for Win2k machine(sadly been unable to get 
linux installed, tried many different distros :-<)?

4.  I am currently reading Computer Forensics:  Incident Response Essentials 
by Warren Kruse and Jay Heiser, are there any other books and/or whitepapers 
that anyone can suggest?

5.  Is there a growing need for computer forensics in the work place?  Does 
the security analyst or consultant double up as computer forensic analyst or 
security investigator?

Thank you for your time,

Joe Lindsay

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