Digitail Forensic Auditing
... “Digital Forensic Auditing” however, serves to instill a degree of trust within, or between, organizations through the creation and preservation of evidentiary abstracts that ensures the accountability of individuals and their electronic actions while also providing privacy right protective policies, balanced with the threats inherent of the modern-day and often hostile computing environment . The discipline of “Digital Forensic Auditing” is also a concept and practice to be used in performing advanced data acquisition of evidentiary artifacts when shutting down a system is not feasible due to such variable factors as dealing with numerous ISP’s, interruption of business, massive amounts of or loss of data, minor infractions, public or semi-private systems and /or remote systems, ASP’s or centralized applications, innocent parties and the legal discovery issues encountered in a complex network environment. This emerging concept of “Forensic Auditing” is due to the convergence of disruptive technologies in Identity Management, Location Based Services, Ambient Intelligence and activities within several fields of science and product and/or process maturation that provide for the automation of network-enabled incident response and immediate and thorough digital forensic analysis of events. ... • Advances in the application of Concurrent Data Mining as applied to pre-emptive Computer Forensics, where increasing attention is being conducted in the research of behavioral profiling where the application of “Forensic Auditing” is being applied through such technologies as … – Content-based Data / Text Mining, – Link Analysis and Adaptive Pattern recognition – Predictive Modeling – AI / Neural Network computational Analysis – Psychological, Behavioral and Statistical Profiling Further convergence within these fields will be amplified by the anticipated advancements in new and increasing levels of meta-data being driven by modern computing file system improvements over the next 2 – 4 years that will … 1.