What is Digital Forensic?

1. Introduction

The aim of this report is to theoretical cover data preservation, examination of digital evidence, tools and techniques for data capture, preservation and examination with a list of recommendations.

In our modern society, computers and other digital devices are becoming ubiquitous. In the late 1970’s the number of crimes that involved digital devices and computers has been increasing rapidly. As a result of that, computer experts specified the need for permanently improving digital forensic tools and practices.

Digital Forensic is described as “ a forensic science encompassing the recovery and investigation of materials found in digital devices “ (“Introduction to Digital Forensics,” 2011). The objective of digital forensics is to implement a well-structured investigation while preserving a documented chain of custody and evidence custody form to know what really occurred on digital devices and who was accountable for it.

Digital forensics is important because of the following reasons:

• In most crimes committed today criminals’ leave behind digital evidence that can be recovered by digital forensic experts and digital forensic tools.

• Digital evidence is increasingly scrutiny by the legal profession.

• Criminals’ today have higher levels of computer skills to prevent computer forensics experts to retrieve the evidence.

Presently, because the importance of digital forensics it has its own field of computer forensic expertise, training and certification.

Organizations and courts now know the significant need for a convenient digital forensic process when a digital crime occurs. In the early 21st, convenient guidelines and practices are being improved to formalize a computer forensic. Generall...

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...captures important data on live computer evidence at any computer crime investigations, without the need of particular forensic expertise. The tool is activated after being installed on a USB flash drive then plugged into a USB port. The features the tool includes are password decryption, data extraction and Internet history recovery. The most outstanding feature that COFFEE offers is the recovery of data stored in volatile memory that could be lost if the computer was turned off.

2) Paraben’s P2 Commander 3.0

It is a comprehensive forensic tool kit created by Paraben Company. It is court proven tool, which offers affordable and reliable digital analysis for digital investigations. The tool is designed to handle large volumes of data in an efficient and fast manner. It is highly recommended computer forensic tool for advanced email and chat log analysis.