Digital
Forensics is a branch of forensic science that involves the recovery and
examination of data and information on all digital devices and networks.
Traditionally, digital forensics focused on computer crimes alone
but now, the extent of digital forensics has extended onto any device that
could store digital data.
On legal aspects, a hypothesis on computer crime is proven
before law. From a corporate’s point of view, internal corporate investigation
and intrusion investigation highly demands expertise in digital forensics.
With cloud Computing finding its significance in the digital
evolution, huge amount of data is being is stored and operated on digital
platforms. Companies are highly vulnerable to lose such data within seconds with
a network breach or intrusion. Here comes the role of digital forensics in
tracking and diagnosing the breach at nodal levels.
Based on the device or media, digital forensics is
classified widely as follows:
Computer Forensics:
Data stored on drives and applications of the computer taken
into account in computer forensics. This includes events log and internet history
as well.
Mobile Device
Forensics:
Call logs, SMS, e-mails, deleted data recovery falls under
the inspection range of mobile device forensics. Recent trends include GPS
location tracking that enable mobile tracking via cell site logs around the
vicinity of their range.
Network Forensics:
Monitoring is done on both internet and intranet for
information gathering, evidence collection and intrusion detection.
Interception of traffic is done at packet level and stored
for later analysis. The information is mostly volatile and actions are taken
instantaneously.
Forensic Data
Analysis:
A series of fraudulent crimes are taken into analysis and
the pattern of activity is analysed from data of digital crimes.
Database Forensics:
It relates to the forensic study of databases and their
metadata.
Investigations make use of database contents, log files and in-RAM
data to create a time chart or recovery for substantiating information.
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