Author, as appears in the article.: Casino, Fran; Dasaklis, Thomas K; Spathoulas, Georgios P; Anagnostopoulos, Marios; Ghosal, Amrita; Borocz, Istvan; Solanas, Agusti; Conti, Mauro; Patsakis, Constantinos
Department: Enginyeria Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Casino Cembellín, Francisco José / Solanas Gómez, Agustín
Keywords: Systematics Standards Review of reviews Meta review Market research Internet Forensics Forensic investigations Digital forensics Cybersecurity Computer crime
Abstract: Due to its critical role in cybersecurity, digital forensics has received significant attention from researchers and practitioners alike. The ever increasing sophistication of modern cyberattacks is directly related to the complexity of evidence acquisition, which often requires the use of several technologies. To date, researchers have presented many surveys and reviews on the field. However, such articles focused on the advances of each particular domain of digital forensics individually. Therefore, while each of these surveys facilitates researchers and practitioners to keep up with the latest advances in a particular domain of digital forensics, the global perspective is missing. Aiming to fill this gap, we performed a qualitative review of all the relevant reviews in the field of digital forensics, determined the main topics on digital forensics topics and identified their main challenges. Despite the diversity of topics and methods, there are several common problems that are faced by almost all of them, with most of them residing in evidence acquisition and pre-processing due to counter analysis methods and difficulties of collecting data from devices, the cloud etc. Beyond pure technical issues, our study highlights procedural issues in terms of readiness, reporting and presentation, as well as ethics, highlighting the European perspective which is traditionally stricter in terms of privacy. Our extensive analysis paves the way for closer collaboration among researcher and practitioners among different topics of digital forensics.
Thematic Areas: Telecommunications Materials science (miscellaneous) Materials science (all) General materials science General engineering General computer science Engineering, electrical & electronic Engineering (miscellaneous) Engineering (all) Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Electrical and electronic engineering Computer science, information systems Computer science (miscellaneous) Computer science (all) Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: franciscojose.casino@urv.cat agusti.solanas@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-4296-2876 0000-0002-4881-6215
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9720948
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ieee Access. 10 25464-25493
APA: Casino, Fran; Dasaklis, Thomas K; Spathoulas, Georgios P; Anagnostopoulos, Marios; Ghosal, Amrita; Borocz, Istvan; Solanas, Agusti; Conti, Mauro; Pats (2022). Research trends, challenges, and emerging topics in digital forensics: A review of reviews. Ieee Access, 10(), 25464-25493. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3154059
Article's DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3154059
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications