Nowadays, more than ever, digital forensics activities are involved in any criminal, civil or military investigation and represent a fundamental tool to support cyber-security. Investigators use a variety of techniques and proprietary software forensics applications to examine the copy of digital devices, searching hidden, deleted, encrypted, or damaged files or folders. Any evidence found is carefully analysed and documented in a “finding report” in preparation for legal proceedings that involve discovery, depositions, or actual litigation. The aim is to discover and analyse patterns of fraudulent activities. In this work, a new methodology is proposed to support investigators during the analysis process, correlating evidence found through different forensics tools. The methodology was implemented through a system able to add semantic assertion to data generated by forensics tools during extraction processes. These assertions enable more effective access to relevant information and enhanced retrieval and reasoning capabilities. © 2019 Elsevier Inc.

A semantic-based methodology for digital forensics analysis / Amato, Flora; Castiglione, Aniello; Cozzolino, Giovanni; Narducci, Fabio. - In: JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING. - ISSN 0743-7315. - 138:(2020), pp. 172-177. [10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.12.017]

A semantic-based methodology for digital forensics analysis

Amato Flora;Aniello Castiglione;Cozzolino Giovanni;Fabio Narducci
2020

Abstract

Nowadays, more than ever, digital forensics activities are involved in any criminal, civil or military investigation and represent a fundamental tool to support cyber-security. Investigators use a variety of techniques and proprietary software forensics applications to examine the copy of digital devices, searching hidden, deleted, encrypted, or damaged files or folders. Any evidence found is carefully analysed and documented in a “finding report” in preparation for legal proceedings that involve discovery, depositions, or actual litigation. The aim is to discover and analyse patterns of fraudulent activities. In this work, a new methodology is proposed to support investigators during the analysis process, correlating evidence found through different forensics tools. The methodology was implemented through a system able to add semantic assertion to data generated by forensics tools during extraction processes. These assertions enable more effective access to relevant information and enhanced retrieval and reasoning capabilities. © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
2020
A semantic-based methodology for digital forensics analysis / Amato, Flora; Castiglione, Aniello; Cozzolino, Giovanni; Narducci, Fabio. - In: JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING. - ISSN 0743-7315. - 138:(2020), pp. 172-177. [10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.12.017]
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