Digital Forensics: Emerging Trends and Analysis of Counter-Security Environment
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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 have devised more sophisticated and targeted methods/techniques to trap victim and breach security setups. The emergence of highly technical nature of digital crimes has created a new branch of science known as digital forensics. Digital Forensics is the field of forensics science that deals with digital crimes and crimes involving computers. This paper focuses on briefing of digital forensics, various phases of digital forensics, digital forensics tools and its comparisons, and emerging trends and issues in this fascinated area. Keywords— Digital forensics, Digital evidence, Digital forensics tools, Network intrusion, Information security,
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