Digital Forensics - Anti Forensics

Running head: DIGITAL FORENSICS
DIGITAL FORENSICS
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1DIGITAL FORENSICS
Description
Anti forensics is when the various programmers develop various tools to make it hard
for the investigators to obtain information during an investigation (Cameron 2018). Anti
forensics is any kind of technique that is designed to damage an investigation. A criminal can
hide any information in various ways. I have learned the criminals that do not want the
investigators to obtain the information from the various devices. This is known as anti-
forensics. I have studied that it becomes tough for the investigators to retrieve that
information as the criminals destroy them (Conlan, Baggili, and Breitinger 2016).
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Earlier, I have studied that there are various tools to study digital forensics, but now I
have learned that there are tools that are available for anti-forensics. It includes a timestamp,
slacker, and many more. I have also learned that there are several techniques to hide the
details. It includes encryption, steganography, tunneling, spoofing, and many more (Gül and
Kugu 2017).
I have studied that there are various goals behind committing anti-forensics. It includes
the following:
 Avoid detection that some event has occurred
 Disruption of information collection
 Maximizing the time that an examiner requires to solve a case
 Mounting an attack against the examiner of forensics
From the goals, it can be understood that anti-forensics can harm the investigation of a
case, and the examiner will need extra time to solve the case. I have also learned and studied
the various methods of anti-forensics that can be used. These methods include destroying the