Digital forensics as a service: A case study of forensic indexed search

Abstract

A rapid growth in the amount of digital data generated and stored in a daily life brings big challenges to the digital forensic field as like it does in other research and technical areas. Performing each step of digital forensics requires tremendously more time than it used to. Therefore, today's tools running on a single system have limitation on supporting forensic investigation. In order to overcome the limitations, the individual tools and technologies need to be converged a service based on highly intensive computing process and large quantity of storage, such like cloud computing. This paper has a goal to present a case study of forensic indexed search as a service. Additionally, in order to evaluate the feasibility of the service, we'll show experimental results and discuss shortcomings for improvement.