Forensics Evidence Elimination Tools the Essay

DIBS Forensic Workstation - Complete solution for problems faced by investigator of computer crimes;

FREDDIE - Forensic recovery of evidence deice diminutive interrogation equipment;

EnCASE - Fully integrated forensic application for Windows; and ProDiscover DFT - completely integrated Windows ™ application for the collection, analysis, management and reporting of computer disk evidence. Designed specifically to meet NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standards. (Timberline Technologies, 2005)

Harris (2005) states that if anti-forensic methods are to be successful "...they must rely on inherent problems with forensics. Anti-forensics often makes use of attacks on the investigators and may also take advantage of our dependency on specific tools or processes. Inherent physical and logical limitations of the investigative process and world in general can be exploited as well. Since anti-forensics rely heavily on the forensics process being susceptible to these issues, resolving these concerns would theoretically solve the anti-forensics problem. Unfortunately, we cannot completely control these issues and we will never be able to completely prevent the corruption of evidence. However, if we target the problems one by one, we might be able to minimize our susceptibility to anti-forensics."

SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

Anti-forensics tools or forensics elimination tools are being developed as rapidly as technology for forensics performed on computers and digital data. It is important that today's forensics investigators stay abreast of new technological developments both in terms of technology that presents barriers to investigations in forensics and technology that serves to assist forensics investigation.Bibliography

Timberline Technologies (2005) Alphabetical List of Computer Forensics Products. Online available at http://www.timberlinetechnologies.com/products/forensics.html

Harris, Ryan (2006 Arriving at Anti-Forensics Consensus: Examining How to define and Control the Anti-Forensics Problem. Digital Investigation 3S S44-S49. Online available at http://www.dfrws.org/2006/proceedings/6-Harris.pdf

Rogers M. (2005) Anti-forensics, http://www.cyberforensics.purdue.edu / docs/Lockheed.ppt; 2005; in Harris, Ryan (2006 Arriving at Anti-Forensics Consensus: Examining How to define and Control the Anti-Forensics Problem. Digital Investigation 3S S44-S49. Online available at http://www.dfrws.org/2006/proceedings/6-Harris.pdf

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