Security News > 2024 > January > Emerging trends and strategies in digital forensics

Schroader talks about the impact of exponential data growth on forensic practices, the role of AI in optimizing investigations, and emphasizes the need for professionals to adapt to the changing dynamics of digital investigations, along with cross-education in related fields.

With the exponential growth in data volume, how do digital forensic experts manage and analyze large datasets effectively?

This is a controversial area because the original requirement in digital forensics was that you needed to do a bitstream image of all hard drive data.

We have seen a new wealth of data that was not accessible before that can be added to a digital investigation.

What is most important for everyone to realize is that the data in any digital forensic investigation is designed to prove innocence or guilt so likely the more there is the better.

The first is the spread of the data, changing from being from computer to smartphone and expanding out to cloud and IoT. With the changes we have seen over the last couple of years and the rise of AI, I see a lot of data shifting as to its storage location.

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