A survey on digital forensics phases, tools and challenges

Abstract

The digital technologies are grown in such way that they are also leading to growth in digital crimes. The aim of digital forensics is to collect, analyze and present evidence related to digital crime and in front of court of law. There are several methods and tools in evidence collection and analysis. This paper gives a survey on digital forensic evidence collection and analysis. Recently, the cloud forensics has become very interesting area of research, as cloud computing is a collection of computer resources and services that can be easily implemented and managed, generally over the Internet. It also discusses about the challenges to be faced in evidence collection and its analysis.