The increase in development of the Internet and computer technology in the past few years has lead to the intensification in new types of crime crimes and computer forensics throughout the world. Cyber crime is considered as an issue for the IT industry. The governments and cyber firms have struggled to fight against the act of illegal crimes in the world of Internet. Although, the majority of individuals would never admit doing this crime, just based on numerical facts a large percentage of today’s population have.
In the modern world, a lot of people use online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Social media websites have to turn out to be a universal technique of staying in touch with family and friends, and it can work as evidence in a nationalized courts. According to Casey (2011), Computer forensics is the practice of accumulating, exploring and reporting on the basis digital data obtained in a way that is lawfully permissible (Casey, 2011). Cyber crimes have become a big concern for the online networking industry. The tactics to illegally hack, download, send virus and spam files has turn out to be the cause of a headache for the forensics investigators.
It is the responsibility of the forensic investigators to find out the culprits who are involved in committing cyber crimes. Although computer forensic investigators possibly will be skilled at their jobs but still there are many challenges that they have to face with to act upon their duty proficiently and successfully. The most significant challenge that a forensic investigator can encounter is the reliability and credibility of the technician collecting the evidence. A forensic investigator is required to stay up to date on the most modern operating systems, data compilation process, and other supplementary software that could be used in the procedure of gathering evidence. Another big challenge that is faced by a forensic investigator is the mistreatment of evidence. The evidence that has been collected should be protected at all times by authoritative forensic investigators. The assembling of evidence should be consistent and a well- mannered system to uphold its probative assessment in an approved proceeding.
Keeping up with the technology to investigate a criminal act is not enough as internet and digitalized technology have lead more criminals to make use of the internet to commit a crime. The speedy Internet networks are intended for highest rapidity, but they are not capable of tracking the users. Forensics investigator should be proficient enough to track down the criminals. INTERPOL is an organization that is functioning to reduce cyber crime by promoting the exchange of information and assistance between agencies to share information about the cyber crimes. Mobile device forensics can work as a tool for investigation as well. According to, Mobile device forensics is the procedure of collecting digital data from a mobile phone (Reiber, 2016).
The forensic investigator should ensure that he is keeping a balance between professionalism and is fulfilling the requirements of clients as well by taking steps that are practical and uncomplicated for the clients and IT world as well. Locard's principal is going to be overridden with new technologies as latest technologies such mobile forensics where evidence can be gathered at much faster rate.
I have learned many valuable lessons from this course, out of which usage of digitalized technology can be regarded as the most useful lesson. The article of Becker (2016) even supports my viewpoint by stating that digitalized schemes have made it much easier for forensic investigators to catch cyber criminals (Becker, 2016).
References
Becker, W. D. (2016, July 14). 10 MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES. Retrieved August 21, 2016, from Forensics Colleges: http://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/10-modern-forensic-science-technologies
Casey, E. (2011). Digital Evidence and Computer Crime,. Chicago: Academic Press.
Reiber, L. (2016). Mobile Forensic Investigations: A Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
