International Journal of Managment, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 7

Forensic Tools Matrix: The Process of Computer Forensic for Digital Evidence Collection

  • Author:
  • Jigar Patel
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 200 to 209

Associate Professor, MCA Programme, Kalol Institute of Management, Kalol, North Gujarat

Abstract

Cyber crime is in limelight due to increasing use of computer and its networks in day to day activity. As computer networks is heavily use not only for information exchange but financial and private data are also transferred via Internet, the Cyber crime increasing by high rate. Since, the evidence of such crimes are in digital forms it is challenging task for Cyber crime Investigator or police personals to collect the evidence against the Cyber criminals to prove the particular type of Cyber crime. This paper mainly focuses on how the Cyber crime takes place and how to collect the evidence against the Cyber criminals which is enough to prove the crime in the court. To do this we need various tools to collect the evidence against the criminals and therefore, the Forensic Tools Matrix helps a lot to investigator for evidence collection and entire investigation process.

Keywords

Cyber Criminals, Forgery, Forensic Tools, Forensic Tools Matrix, Investigator