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History of Digital Forensics

The expansive history and evolving landscape of digital forensics, the content will be divided into sections to cover each significant period. Each section will outline key developments, breakthroughs, and challenges, aiming for a comprehensive understanding suited for an audience interested in cybersecurity, digital forensics, and the evolution of digital technologies.

Evolving Landscape

Evolution of Digital Forensics and free infographic downloads available

Digital Forensics Process

Identification and Collection

Digital forensics identification finds devices, files, and logs..

Preservation and Documentation

A secure chain of custody prevents evidence tampering.

Analysis and Examination

Files are analyzsed using forensic techniques to find evidence and reconstruct events.

Presentation and Reporting

Presentations clarify findings for legal or internal usage via visuals, summaries, or reports.

Post-Investigation Activities

Legal opinions based on investigative findings are offered by experts in the form of expert testimony.

Detailed Digital Forensics Process

Forensics process detailed and free infographic downloads available

Types of Digital Forensics

Network Forensics

Network forensics aims to monitor, register, and analyze any network activity.

Email Forensics

Email forensics helps in retrieving relevant data from email. This information can be the senders’ and receivers’ identities, the content of the messages, time stamps, sources, and metadata.

Mobile Forensics

This type of analysis is required to retrieve audio and visual data, contacts, and call logs from the devices presented in court as evidence.

Memory Forensics

This type of digital forensics is also called live acquisition. It retrieves the data from RAM.

Malware Forensics

Helps detect, analyze, and investigate different malware types to trace suspects and reasons for the attack. They also evaluate the damage caused by the attack and determine the code of the malware.

Database Forensics

Database forensic helps investigate any access to a database and report any changes made in the data.

Detailed Digital Forensics Types

Forensics Types detailed and free infographic downloads available