With a greater dependence on cloud computing and computer systems, digital forensics now has a strong footprint in the law enforcement avenue. Credit card fraud, cases of child pornography, and audit frauds need ace digital forensic experts to assess and analyze data for court proceedings. Only in 2021, cybercrime incidents were some of the most frequently reported criminal offenses. Crimes like phishing, personal data breach, extortion, and identity theft were reported by the thousands.
To understand the extent to which digital forensics can help you with data analysis and extraction, here’s a closer look at its branches:
Computer Forensics
Previously, the words ‘computer forensics’ and ‘digital forensics’ were used interchangeably. Computer forensics extract, analyze and preserve data for criminal and court proceedings. The branch uses strategies similar to those of data recovery. They also follow some legal guidelines for data extraction.
Network Forensics
This branch of digital forensics focuses on monitoring and assessing computer network traffic for legal evidence, information gathering, or third-party intrusion detection. David Schiffer, a correspondent for Forbes, is quite certain cybercrime issues are bound to exacerbate as organizations grow their networks.
Mobile Device Forensics
The branch covers the recovery of digital evidence from phones using forensic data analysis methods. The term ‘mobile devices’ goes for all devices with GPS, internal memory, and communicative facilities. Some things that mobile forensics are still trying to decode include:
- Locating the cell phone while the mobile is on hibernation mode or is switched off
- Shifts in mobile phone form like changes in the operating system, memory storage, and peripherals like pin connectors
Recovering data from phones can get quite complex. At Eclipse Forensics, our data forensic experts can collect call logs, text messages, deleted pictures, call lists, and more data sets.
Database Forensics
Database forensics is related to metadata. The information can exist in a server’s RAM. During such a case, cyber forensic experts perform a live analysis of RAMs to extract data. A forensic examination of data includes who accessed the database and if data in the system has been tampered with. Organizations across the world have data stored in complex databases that can be analyzed to collect forensic data.
Database forensics can also identify transactions within an application database. Evidence of fraud and wrongdoing may be collected this way.
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