The Challenges Of Digital Evidence

Malicious insiders are posturing exceptional security difficulties to organizations because of their insight, abilities, and authorized access to data frameworks. The scopes of potential digital evidence supports have grown exponentially, be it hard drives in personal computers and laptops or solid state memories in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, even while idleness times linger behind. This paper discusses four best sources of data that forensics experts hunger to get their hands on. They are log files, hard drives, mobiles devices, and social networking websites. Each of these sources has its own characteristics and techniques that the forensic investigators can use to explore hidden evidence. The paper also shows challenges that the investigators are facing in regards of collecting and examining evidence in each data sources.
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays with a fast growing digital age of modern technology, cyber-attack …show more content…
These sources can contain a vast amount of data. Hence, they lead to many challenges in acquiring the evidence. For example, just in a mobile devices category, there are multiple types of devices – cell phones, smartphones, tablets, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices, and etcetera. In helping the investigators to organize their sources, there are three different events – network intrusion, malware installation, and insider file deletion – can be used to prioritize data sources’ potential usefulness. This paper will discuss 4 major sources of data: log files, hard drives, mobile devices, and social networking websites. Each of the data sources has its own fundamental characteristics and ways for the investigators to collect valuable data out of it. The paper also explains the challenges regarding collecting and examining these