A Walkthrough of Digital Forensics and its Tools

Abstract

The accelerated pace in technological advances and pervasive usage of digital assets has manifested the value of Digital Forensics. The operations of global phenomena are confronting a risk of exposure and threats from cyber penetrators as they are posing challenges towards everyone through anti-forensic techniques. This requires effective process and specialized digital forensics tools to acquire digital evidences to serve as an aid to justice. This paper provides a brief on digital forensics process, its evaluation metrics, and proposes a taxonomy of digital forensics tools which provides a detailed overview and comparison among different forensics tools based on different features in their categories. Furthermore, we identified several indispensable challenges in this fascinated area.

Keywords; Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, Digital Forensics Tools, Information Security