Digital Forensic Tools Catalogue, a Reference Point for the Forensic Community

Abstract

In the digital forensics community, there is no a general agreement on how to classify forensic tools related to the acquisition and analysis phases. The Digital Forensic Tools Catalogue has been developed flowing a bottom-up approach. Each tool has been distinguished on the basis of its own features and later it has been structured and classified in a coherent and sensible way. At the moment, the Catalogue, available on the web, includes about 1500 tools divided into two main branches: tools for the acquisition and tools for the analysis activities.