4 Responses 05/13

Samar Work:

Hello Everyone,

This is Samar Tej Reddy Gade, in my stay of 6 years in USA I have pursued a master’s degree in Computer Engineering specialized in Telecommunications and networking from Florida Institute of Technology and have been working as an RF Engineer for 4+ years. During my Bachelor and Master, I was in traditional classroom but after MS I had to pick few Online courses to learn few Industrial Tools to go along with my theoretical knowledge to be successful in RF Field.

With this course I would like to learn the evolving law of acquiring and analyzing digital evidence from computers and devices.

Why do you think that a study of Digital Forensics is important?

Digital Forensics is a branch of forensic science that involves in the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices. It is a scientific investigation process where computer artifacts, data points, and information are collected around a cyber-attack. Its main goal is to identify, collect, preserve & analyze the data where we can use effectively in legal case, stated by The United States Computer Emergency Readiness TEAM (US-CERT)

Digital forensics can be useful to all the corporations as well as law firms. For E.g., if any company or organization has reason to accept that a representative/employee is distributing trade secrets, they may utilize a Digital forensic investigator to help fabricate a body of evidence against that worker. While the employee might want to erase their local data, he/she is probably not going to approach those servers. Thus, winning the case becomes a matter of knowing where to look. We will create a digital image of the office server and use data fragments to reconstruct what happened.

References :

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/forensics.pdf

https://www.firstlegal.com/what-is-digital-forensics-and-why-is-it-important

https://www.provendatarecovery.com/blog/what-is-digital-forensics/

Thank you,

Samar.

Anvesh Work:

Hello All,

 

This is Anvesh Reddy Kankanala and I work as a Java Programmer in Iowa City. I would say a unique aspect of myself is that I have a very high level of self-awareness and apprehension of my personality. I am very much in tune with myself and seeing someone who knows me better than I know myself would be a big challenge. This is because of my own sensory and perceptual experiences. I like to watch movies and visit new places. Digital Forensics

Just like Forensics is used to extract evidence through scientific bodies, Digital Forensics is used to extract evidence from any Digital media, platform, or network. It is mainly used to keep track and reduce Digital, civil and physical crimes (Graves, 2014). The information mainly collected through these Digital platforms can be used as a piece of evidence for actual cases, or just as an information gathering. This was mainly necessary for the 1980s because a lot of communications about attacks were mostly conducted directly through telephones. Also, by providing high security to important networks, intruders can be easily identified (Graves, 2014).

 

Accounts of personal data can be extracted in case they existed during any cases that needed them, although it sounds against personal property rights, it is used for a good cause. One of the most important applications is to check if the provided information is accurate or not. It can be used to backtrack the device used, and hence the owner and the location through any IP address. There are many examples where the information collected is used to identify areas of weakness of a criminal. Even with the existence of many limitations and legal considerations that have to be kept in mind, the field has proven to be an important tool (Arun Anoop et. al., 2019).

 

References

 

Arun Anoop, M., Poonkuntran, D. S., Vasudevan, D. V., & Alli, D. P. (2019). Study of the importance of digital forensics and deep learning tools. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 28(20), 963-978.

 

Graves, M. W. (2014). Digital archaeology: the art and science of digital forensics. Pearson Education.