Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

School

Security Research Institute

RAS ID

25317

Comments

Mohammed, H., Clarke, N., & Li, F. (2016). An Automated Approach for Digital Forensic Analysis of Heterogeneous Big Data. The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law: JDFSL, 11(2), 137-152.

https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2016.1384

Abstract

The major challenges with big data examination and analysis are volume, complex interdependence across content, and heterogeneity. The examination and analysis phases are considered essential to a digital forensics process. However, traditional techniques for the forensic investigation use one or more forensic tools to examine and analyse each resource. In addition, when multiple resources are included in one case, there is an inability to cross-correlate findings which often leads to inefficiencies in processing and identifying evidence. Furthermore, most current forensics tools cannot cope with large volumes of data. This paper develops a novel framework for digital forensic analysis of heterogeneous big data. The framework mainly focuses upon the investigations of three core issues: data volume, heterogeneous data and the investigators cognitive load in understanding the relationships between artefacts. The proposed approach focuses upon the use of metadata to solve the data volume problem, semantic web ontologies to solve the heterogeneous data sources and artificial intelligence models to support the automated identification and correlation of artefacts to reduce the burden placed upon the investigator to understand the nature and relationship of the artefacts.

DOI

10.15394/jdfsl.2016.1384

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