Digital forensics research: The next 10 years

By Simson L. Garfinkel. Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response, 2010

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Today's Golden Age of computer forensics is quickly coming to an end. Without a clear strategy for enabling research efforts that build upon one another, forensic research will fall behind the market, tools will become increasingly obsolete, and law enforcement, military and other users of computer forensics products will be unable to rely on the results of forensic analysis. This article summarizes current forensic research directions and argues that to move forward the community needs to adopt standardized, modular approaches for data representation and forensic processing.

Subfields: Information Systems, Signal Processing

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