Corporates and organizations across the globe are spending huge sums on information security as they are reporting an increase in security related incidents. The proliferation of cloud, social network and multiple mobile device usage is on one side represent an opportunity and benefits to the organisation and on other side have posed new challenges for those policing cybercrimes. Cybercriminals...

Computer Crime and computer related incidents continue their prevalence and frequency, resulting in losses approaching billions of dollars. To fight against these crimes and frauds, it is urgent to develop digital forensics education programs to train a suitable workforce that can effectively investigate computer crimes and incidents. There is presently no standard to guide the design of digita...

Digital forensics is a newly developed subject offered at Charles Sturt University (CSU). This subject serves as one of the core subjects for Master of Information Systems Security (Digital Forensics stream) course. The subject covers the legislative, regulatory, and technical aspects of digital forensics. The modules provide students detailed knowledge on digital forensics legislations, digita...

The paper explores the application of digital forensics techniques to cyber warfare scenarios. A common accepted taxonomy for digital forensics (and antiforensics) activities, techniques, procedures and work flows does not yet exist but guidelines and even international standards have given the field a framework: this paper explores how digital forensics can be logically framed in the context o...

Cloud computing is a novel computing paradigm that presents new research opportunities in the field of digital forensics. Cloud computing is based on the following principles: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service. These principles require that cloud computing be distributed internationally. Even if the cloud is hosted locally, it ...

The dramatic increase in crime relating to the Internet and computers has caused a growing need for computer forensics. Computer forensic tools have been developed to assist computer forensic investigators in conducting a proper investigation into digital crimes. Digital forensics is a growing and important fields of research for current intelligence, law enforcement, and military organizations...

framework Digital forensics FORZA framework Forensics principles Zachman framework Legal aspects a b s t r a c t What is Digital Forensics? Mark Pollitt highlighted in DFRWS 2004 [Politt MM. Six blind men from Indostan. Digital forensics research workshop (DFRWS); 2004] that digital forensics is not an elephant, it is a process and not just one process, but a group of tasks and processes in inv...

As colleges and universities consider instituting a bachelor’s degree in digital forensics or computer forensics, there are numerous questions to be addressed. While some of these normally occur in the development of any new major, there are aspects of digital forensics which do not often (if ever) occur in other majors. We discuss the issues that should be resolved in the development of a bacc...