Prospective Research Fields and Difficulties in Digital Forensic Evidence Analysis
Keywords:
Digital Evidence Backlog, Digital Forensic Challenges, Future Research TopicsAbstract
As technology becomes increasingly prevalent in modern life, digital gadgets are more likely to be relevant to a criminal investigation or civil case. Law enforcement organisations around the world are currently dealing with enormous backlogs of digital evidence due to the sheer volume of investigations requiring digital forensic expertise. Anticipated future trends suggest a significant rise in the volume of incidents necessitating digital forensic analysis. A growing variety of devices, such as PCs, smartphones, tablets, cloud-based services, Internet of Things gadgets, wearable technology, etc., will probably need to be analysed for each case.The diversity of new digital evidence sources presents the digital investigator with novel and difficult identification, acquisition, storage, and analysis issues. The technical issues causing the backlog in digital forensics are examined in this study, along with a number of potential future research areas that could considerably improve the effectiveness of the digital forensic process.
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