{"id":868,"date":"2013-07-17T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfire.ucd.ie\/?p=868"},"modified":"2013-07-24T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T07:22:47","slug":"challenges-with-automation-in-digital-forensic-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Challenges with Automation in Digital Forensic Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalfire.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock_224706.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1236\" alt=\"shutterstock_224706\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalfire.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock_224706-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock_224706-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shutterstock_224706.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The use of automation in digital forensic investigations is not only a technological\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">issue, but also has political and social implications. This work discusses some\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">challenges with the implementation and acceptance of automation in digital forensic\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">investigation, and possible implications for current digital forensic investigators.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Current attitudes towards the use of automation in digital forensic investigations are\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">examined, as well as the issue of digital investigators\u2019 knowledge acquisition and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">retention. The argument is made for a well-planned, careful use of automation going\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">forward that allows for a more efficient and effective use of automation in digital\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">forensic investigations while at the same time attempting to improve the overall\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">quality of expert investigators. Targeting and carefully controlling automated\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">solutions for beginning-investigators may improve the speed and quality of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">investigations while at the same time letting expert digital investigators spend more\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">time utilizing expert-level knowledge required in manual phases of investigations. By\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">considering how automated solutions are being implemented into digital\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">investigations, investigation unit managers can increase the efficiency of their unit\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">while at the same time maximizing their return on investment for expert-level digital\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">investigator training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>James, J. I., P. Gladyshev. (2013) &#8220;Challenges with Automation in Digital Forensic Investigations&#8221;. p. 17. Computers and Society. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalfire.ucd.ie\/?attachment_id=926\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1303.4498<\/a> [<a href=\" http:\/\/digitalfire.ucd.ie\/?attachment_id=867\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The use of automation in digital forensic investigations is not only a technological\u00a0issue, but also has political and social implications. This work discusses some\u00a0challenges with the implementation and acceptance of automation in digital forensic\u00a0investigation, and possible implications for current digital forensic investigators.\u00a0Current attitudes towards the use of automation in digital forensic investigations are\u00a0examined, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40,38,10,41,39],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-position","tag-education","tag-automation","tag-investigation","tag-standardization","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfire.ucd.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}