Computer forensics has emerged to be one of the fast growing fields in the past few years due to the increasing of computer crimes. These crimes are actually criminal activities committed through computer systems and the internet.
The wide spread use of personal computers in both businesses and the homes have facilitated many computer fraud and cyber crimes. There are more and more challenges faced by the computer forensics experts when they are handling computers for legal purposes.
Let’s see some of the main challenges faced by these particular experts:
• It is indeed an important but hard task for the analysts to recover data from computers whilst preserving evidential integrity. The experts requires knowledge, expertise and experience to retrieve data from hard drives whose contents have been completely deleted.
• It is the responsibility of these professionals to securely store and handle all the recovered data
• The experts need to be well equipped with all sorts of skills in order for them to find the significant information in a large volume of data. They have to track large amount of emails and instant messaging and evaluate their contents to look for evidence
• It is indeed a challenging task for these professionals to present the information and evidence to the court of law. This is because the criminals nowadays are so smart to modify and damage the evidences, making them inadmissible in the court of law
The job of computer forensics experts is becoming more and more challenging as technology continues to develop. On the other hand, criminals always adapt themselves to changes and keep themselves updated with the latest law enforcement. They are so brilliant and they are always one step ahead of every protection we undertake.