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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Digital forensics
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science encompassing the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices, often in relation to computer crime but also for digitally enabled crime or a digital witness to regular crime. More and more evidence can be found on digital devices (such as smartphones, laptops, servers, smart TVs and digital security camera's), which makes it a challenge to find evidence in the sheer plethora of information. At the same time digital evidence is swiftly overwritten, connected devices can be erased or altered from a distance and information can be encrypted making is difficult to access.
Digital forensics investigations have a variety of applications. The most common is to support or refute a hypothesis before criminal or civil courts. As well as identifying direct evidence of a crime, digital forensics can be used to link evidence to specific suspects, confirm alibis or statements, determine intent, identify sources (for example, in copyright cases), or authenticate documents. Investigations are much broader in scope than other areas of forensic analysis, often involving complex timelines or hypotheses. In other areas of forensic analysis the usual aim is to provide answers to a series of simpler questions. There are several sub-branches in digital forensics depending on the type of device or system under investigation: computer forensics, network forensics, forensic data analysis and mobile device forensics. Electronic discovery (or e-discovery) involves finding relations and patterns in large quantities of electronic documents, including e-mails. Different technologies are available and developed to support the digital forensic investigator, for the collection of unaltered complete images of memory and access to data, for the analysis of data and to support reporting.
Related Keywords: digital investigation, digital forensic science, breach assessment, open-source intelligence, OSINT, chain of evidence
Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science encompassing the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices, often in relation to computer crime but also for digitally enabled crime or a digital witness to regular crime. More and more evidence can be found on digital devices (such as smartphones, laptops, servers, smart TVs and digital security camera's), which makes it a challenge to find evidence in the sheer plethora of information. At the same time digital evidence is swiftly overwritten, connected devices can be erased or altered from a distance and information can be encrypted making is difficult to access.
Digital forensics investigations have a variety of applications. The most common is to support or refute a hypothesis before criminal or civil courts. As well as identifying direct evidence of a crime, digital forensics can be used to link evidence to specific suspects, confirm alibis or statements, determine intent, identify sources (for example, in copyright cases), or authenticate documents. Investigations are much broader in scope than other areas of forensic analysis, often involving complex timelines or hypotheses. In other areas of forensic analysis the usual aim is to provide answers to a series of simpler questions. There are several sub-branches in digital forensics depending on the type of device or system under investigation: computer forensics, network forensics, forensic data analysis and mobile device forensics. Electronic discovery (or e-discovery) involves finding relations and patterns in large quantities of electronic documents, including e-mails. Different technologies are available and developed to support the digital forensic investigator, for the collection of unaltered complete images of memory and access to data, for the analysis of data and to support reporting.
Related Keywords: digital investigation, digital forensic science, breach assessment, open-source intelligence, OSINT, chain of evidence
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