Special Issue: Maturation of Digital Forensics: Crisis or Opportunity?
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2019-05-01
影响因子: 1.736
期刊难度:
CCF分类: 无
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 4区
• 小类 : 计算机:信息系统 - 4区
• 小类 : 计算机:跨学科应用 - 4区
Overview
Digital forensics is struggling to handle competing demands, which include responding rapidly to the growth in cybercrime, following methodical scientific practices, satisfying quality assurance requirements, providing intelligence insights, and protecting privacy. Mistakes in digital investigations have gained significant attention in the past year, and are raising criminal justice concerns particularly in the UK. These problems could be treated as a crisis or opportunity. Either way, the increased scrutiny is pushing digital forensics to mature.
The debates and decisions on how to handle these issues will determine the future of digital forensics, including whether digital forensics and forensic science will become integrated, what processes will be followed, who will be qualified to perform specific processes, which tools will be approved for use, whether digital investigations will be strictly isolated or broadly coordinated, whether the priority will be reactive or preventive strategies, what knowledge management and information exchange will be developed, and what privacy protection measures will be required.
This special issue invites proposed strategies and remedies for the growing crisis in digital forensics. Challenges and topics of interest include:
+ Increases in cybercrimes and cyberattacks
+ Criminal adaptation to new technology
+ Advances and proliferation in technology (e.g., IoT, mobile devices)
+ Cross-jurisdictional coordination and joint operations
+ Decentralization of digital investigation and forensic capabilities
+ Differentiation between investigation operations and forensic activities
+ Centralization of research, development and administration of advanced digital investigation capabilities
+ Streamlined mechanisms for exchanging digital investigation information between tools, organizations and countries
+ Collaboration models between government, industry and/or academia
+ Obtaining authorized access to encrypted information for forensic purposes
+ Privacy exposures and violations
+ Balancing digital investigations with privacy concerns
+ Independence of digital forensics from investigation
+ Automated evidence processing and exchange
+ Validation of methods and tools
+ Requirements for methods and tools
+ Harmonization of data formats
+ Knowledge management
+ Training and education
+ Increased availability of digital investigation knowledge and advanced capabilities, under centralized oversight, for non-specialists operating in decentralized environments
+ Reliability concerns of results
+ Quality assurance
+ Evaluation of digital traces
+ Explicability of forensic results and automated processing (explainable artificial intelligence)