February’s publications continued a trending topic in recent research: establishing reliability in forensic science as a whole, and digital forensics particularly. Even as some works explored the decryption of encrypted data, and the use of “hacked” data from encrypted devices, … Read more
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How Better Processes and Information Can Improve Digital Forensic Science: January’s Research Roundup
As digital forensics moves toward a more established presence within the forensic sciences, 2022 starts off on an existential note thanks to a set of papers exploring digital forensic expertise and process, and the language used to describe both.
Technical … Read more
Jesse Lindmar on Digital Forensics Lab Quality Assurance and Accreditation
Christa: As technology’s advancements continue to outpace practitioner’s ability to keep up, standardizing digital forensics processes, practices and tools has never not been a hot topic in the community. The response ranges from the United Kingdom structured efforts to … Read more
Research Roundup: Problem Solving In Digital Forensics
Digital forensics research last month fell fairly neatly into two categories, each of which sought to solve bigger problems in the field. In the first category is ensuring quality via frameworks such as service levels, better supporting first responders, reporting, … Read more
Research Roundup: New Tools And Techniques And Ensuring Their Quality
The month of May saw a robust, diverse set of academic papers published. Tools and techniques are as present as ever — focusing that month on Windows 10 and mobile malware — but so are discussions about how to ensure … Read more
Lessons Learned In Digital Forensics Standardization: United Kingdom
Should digital forensics be standardized? Can it be standardized successfully? These questions have been hotly debated for a number of years, perhaps never more so than in recent years as digital forensics has become increasingly important in both criminal and … Read more
Requirements In Digital Forensics Method Definition: Observations From A UK Study
by Angus M. Marshall & Richard Paige
Abstract
During a project to examine the potential usefulness of evidence of tool verification as part of method validation for ISO 17025 accreditation, the authors have examined requirements statements in several digital forensic … Read more