Research Article
An Automated Link Analysis Solution Applied to Digital Forensic Investigations
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_13, author={Fergal Brennan and Martins Udris and Pavel Gladyshev}, title={An Automated Link Analysis Solution Applied to Digital Forensic Investigations}, proceedings={Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. Fifth International Conference, ICDF2C 2013, Moscow, Russia, September 26-27, 2013, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ICDF2C}, year={2015}, month={2}, keywords={Forensic tools Link analysis Social network analysis Software engineering Automation Profiling Visualisation Keywords}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_13} }- Fergal Brennan
Martins Udris
Pavel Gladyshev
Year: 2015
An Automated Link Analysis Solution Applied to Digital Forensic Investigations
ICDF2C
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14289-0_13
Abstract
The rapid growth of computer storage, new technologies, anti-forensics and hacking tools, as well as cheaper and easily accessible powerful computing equipment, has led to digital crimes becoming more frequent and often more sophisticated. These challenges have led to digital examinations becoming increasingly time-consuming and laborious, resulting in an urgent need for the automation of digital forensic analysis. In addition to in-depth analysis of particular digital devices, it is often necessary to establish that two devices and hence their owners are linked. This need arises, for example, when a suspect is apprehended and the investigator needs to establish grounds for the detention of a suspect. This paper proposes a methodology and a software solution to automate the detection of information linkage between two or more distinct digital devices.