High Performance Proactive Digital Forensics

High-Level Integrated Vie of Digital Forensics

We are living in a world where there is an increasing need for evidence in organizations. Good digital evidence is becoming a business enabler. Very few organizations have the structures (management and infrastructure) in place to enable them to conduct cost effective, low-impact and efficient digital investigations (Sommer, 2005). Digital Forensics (DF) is a vehicle that organizations use to p...

Digital Forensics to Intelligent Forensics

In this paper we posit that current investigative techniques—particularly as deployed by law enforcement, are becoming unsuitable for most types of crime investigation. The growth in cybercrime and the complexities of the types of the cybercrime coupled with the limitations in time and resources, both computational and human, in addressing cybercrime put an increasing strain on the ability of d...

Digital Forensics Compute Cluster: A High Speed Distributed Computing Capability for Digital Forensics

We have developed a distributed computing capability, Digital Forensics Compute Cluster (DFORC2) to speed up the ingestion and processing of digital evidence that is resident on computer hard drives. DFORC2 parallelizes evidence ingestion and file processing steps. It can be run on a standalone computer cluster or in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. When running in a virtualized computing e...

Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics

igital forensics investigators are experiencing an increase in both the number and complexity of cases that require their attention. The number of cases is rising for a variety of reasons, including better awareness of the capabilities of digital forensics techniques at all levels of law enforcement and in the private sector. The complexity of cases is growing because forensic targets with hund...