Thursday 27 October 2011

Headache and Wish of a Digital Forensics Analyst


The world of digital forensics is getting evermore challenging. Storage capacity is getting higher, cloud computing, mobile phones and the list goes on. We, the digital forensics professionals strive to investigate and analyze our case item and the process must be forensically sound.

Why not we have forensically sound IT equipment instead. It makes life easier isn’t it? There is a paper by Huebner [1] who shared on this predicament. 

[1] E.Huebner and F.Henskens. “The Role of Operating Systems in Computer Forensics.” Operating Systems Review and ACM SIGOPS, 2010.