Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science focused on the recovery and analysis of electronic evidence in cybercrime investigations and legal proceedings. It encompasses computer forensics, which involves methodological procedures for gathering and preserving evidence from digital devices. The field has evolved over the decades, necessitating standards and protocols to ensure the integrity and admissibility of digital evidence in court.
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science focused on the recovery and analysis of electronic evidence in cybercrime investigations and legal proceedings. It encompasses computer forensics, which involves methodological procedures for gathering and preserving evidence from digital devices. The field has evolved over the decades, necessitating standards and protocols to ensure the integrity and admissibility of digital evidence in court.
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science focused on the recovery and analysis of electronic evidence in cybercrime investigations and legal proceedings. It encompasses computer forensics, which involves methodological procedures for gathering and preserving evidence from digital devices. The field has evolved over the decades, necessitating standards and protocols to ensure the integrity and admissibility of digital evidence in court.
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science focused on the recovery and analysis of electronic evidence in cybercrime investigations and legal proceedings. It encompasses computer forensics, which involves methodological procedures for gathering and preserving evidence from digital devices. The field has evolved over the decades, necessitating standards and protocols to ensure the integrity and admissibility of digital evidence in court.
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Introduction to
digital forensics
Aashika N Kristu Jayanti College Introduction Digital forensics, also known as computer or cyber forensics, is a specialized branch of forensic science that focuses on the recovery, analysis, and preservation of electronic evidence in cases involving digital devices and systems. It plays a crucial role in investigating and solving cybercrimes, as well as in legal proceedings where digital evidence is central. Computer forensics
Computer forensics is a part of digital forensics that
deals with crimes committed across computing devices such as networks, computers, and digital storage media. It refers to a set of methodological procedures and techniques to identify, gather, preserve, extract, interpret, document, and present evidence from computing equipment such that the discovered evidence is acceptable during a legal and/or administrative proceeding in a court of law. TYPES OF INVESTIGATION
Criminal Intelligence forensics gathering
Electronic Intrusion discovery investigatio (eDiscovery n ) Scope and Purpose: Digital forensics involves the collection, analysis, and preservation of electronic evidence to investigate cyber crimes, unauthorized access, data breaches, intellectual property theft, and other cyber-related incidents. Its primary goal is to uncover digital evidence that can be used in legal proceedings. Nature of Digital Evidence: Digital evidence encompasses a wide range of electronic data, including files, emails, logs, metadata, and more. It can be found on computers, servers, mobile devices, storage media, and even in the cloud. The volatile and dynamic nature of digital evidence requires specialized techniques to ensure its integrity and admissibility in court. History of computer forensics 1990s: Establishment of 1960s - 1970s: Emergence Computer Forensics as a of Computers 1 4 Discipline
1995: Formation of High
1980s: Rise of Personal Computers 2 5 Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)
Late 1990s - Early 2000s: Legal
Late 1980s - Early 1990s: 3 6 Recognition and Growing Need for Forensics Standardization 7 2000s: Evolution of Tools and Techniques Need for digital forensics
● Rise in Cybercrime: ● Digital Evidence in Legal Proceedings ● Corporate Investigations ● Incident Response and Breach Investigation ● Intellectual Property Protection ● Employee Misconduct Investigations ● Preventing Data Loss ● Counterterrorism and National Security Principles of computer forensics ● Legal Admissibility ● Preservation of Evidence ● Documentation and Recordkeeping ● Privacy and Data Protection ● Chain of Custody ● Transparency and Replicability ● Exhaustive Examination ● Technical Competence Locard’s principle Locard originally developed this principle in the context of physical forensic evidence, it has been extended to digital forensics as well. In digital forensics, Locard's Principle of Exchange is applied to the idea that interactions in the digital realm also leave traces that can be analyzed for investigative purposes
Every Interaction Leaves a
Trace
Trace Analysis
Evidence Identification
Linking Individuals and
Devices Prerequisites for Setting up Digital Forensic Lab
Hardware and Software Infrastructure
Secure Facility Qualified Personnel Prerequisites for Setting up Digital Forensic Lab
Digital Forensic Tools
Evidence Handling Protocols Training Programs Global Standards in Digital Forensics ISO/IEC 27037
ISO/IEC 17025
SWGDE (Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence) NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Global Digital Evidence
Association (GDEA) Legal Process in Digital Forensics
Chain of Expert Legal Custody Data Collection Analysis and Documentatio Witness Authorization Examination n of Findings Testimony
