Digital Forensics Literature Review 2022

Running head: DIGITAL FORENSICS
DIGITAL FORENSICS
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature review........................................................................................................................3
Results........................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Future work and comparison......................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

2DIGITAL FORENSICS
Introduction
There has been a lot of advancement in information technologies which has had a
significant impact on human lives. As per Statista, at present 45.12 percent of the population
of the world have a smartphone (Lillis, Becker, O'Sullivan, & Scanlon, 2016). Portable
devices such as the smart phones and tablets are the electronic gadgets on which people are
heavily dependent on. Therefore cybersecurity has become an important concern. Hence,
digital forensics has emerged as an important field related to this context. With the increasing
number of cyber crimes, there is a need to safeguard sensitive data in order to prevent data
breaches. The problem is, personal devices that are always with their users have lots of
sensitive informations stored in them which make the user vulnerable to different threats and
risks. Developments include cloud storage systems and many more things that are being used
by criminals to store and conceal criminal data including child pornography, terrorism and
other such things like illegal drogue. Thus it is necessary to find out how digital forensics
skills can be made use of to
Literature review
As per the research done by Valjarevic and Venter (2015), the task of a digital
forensic expert is tough in cases where different applications such as IMO employ encryption
for storing as well as transmitting data. This makes its complicated for the digital forensic
investigator to extract data. The IMO application has employed encryption for not just calling
activities but also for chatting activities. Since the last few years, the users have shown
increasing concerns over the privacy of their data and thus almost all social media
applications have come up with encryption. Device forensics requires analyzing memory as
well as storage elements in order to collect evidences but the encryption of the data these
days has made the task of the experts’ tough than before (Du, Le-Khac, & Scanlon, 2017). It