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A Survey on Digital Forensics Phases, Tools and Challenges

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The digital technologies are grown in such way that they are also leading to growth in digital crimes. The aim of digital forensics is to collect, analyze and present evidence related to digital crime and in front of court of law. There are several methods and tools in evidence collection and analysis. This paper gives a survey on digital forensic evidence collection and analysis. Recently, the cloud forensics has become very interesting area of research, as cloud computing is a collection of computer resources and services that can be easily implemented and managed, generally over the Internet. It also discusses about the challenges to be faced in evidence collection and its analysis.

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  1. Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, India

    Sheena Mohammmed

  2. JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

    R. Sridevi

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  1. CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    K. Srujan Raju

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    A. Govardhan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    B. Padmaja Rani

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad (Autonomous), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    R. Sridevi

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

    M. Ramakrishna Murty

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Mohammmed, S., Sridevi, R. (2020). A Survey on Digital Forensics Phases, Tools and Challenges. In: Raju, K., Govardhan, A., Rani, B., Sridevi, R., Murty, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1090. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1480-7_20

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