- Digital forensics is the process of collecting, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence from electronic devices and systems to investigate and prosecute cybercrimes, security incidents, and other illicit activities.
- Digital evidence can include files, documents, emails, chat logs, internet history, registry entries, system logs, metadata, network traffic captures, and artifacts from various digital devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets, servers, and IoT devices.
- The key steps in a digital forensics investigation typically include identification and preservation of evidence, acquisition of forensic images, analysis of the evidence using forensic tools and techniques, interpretation of findings, and documentation of results for legal proceedings.
- Digital forensics can be categorized into various types, including computer forensics (investigating data on computers and storage devices), network forensics (analyzing network traffic and logs), mobile device forensics (examining data on smartphones and tablets), and memory forensics (investigating volatile memory for malware and intrusion analysis).
- Digital forensics is used in various scenarios, including criminal investigations, incident response to security breaches, intellectual property theft, employee misconduct investigations, civil litigation, regulatory compliance, and corporate espionage cases.
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