Role of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Forensics Investigation
The increasing frequency and new evolved methods of cyber-attacks are making digital forensics work very hard. Apart from that massive amount of data to store during the process needs a strong technology that could be in corporated into investigation tools or software. AI promises forensics analysts to provide all such assistance.
Artificial intelligence is posted promising technology of the 21st century. It is a very prominent technology with a major focus on real-time complexities. AI is a simulation of the human intelligence process by machines. Generally, AI programming focuses on these 3 things: Learning, Reasoning, and self-correction. It does not need any human intervention to perform the task.
Challenges in the digital forensics field
- A large volume of data- As discussed at Digital forensics conference, Factors such as obtaining, storing, and processing bulk amount data is challenging and thus can cause issues that make storage, analysis, identification, and investigation of criminal records difficult.
- Nowadays evidence is not present only at one place, it is randomly scattered in various physical and virtual locations including social media platforms, personal networks, Clouds, storage units, databases, memory, and many more places. Forensics experts need to spend extra efforts, time, resources, expertise to gather these scattered pieces of evidence.
- Most of the tools which are used in the digital forensics field to investigate incidents are not able to keep pace with the continuous evolution and improvement of attacks.
To address all these challenges, we need a technology that can store the massive amount of data, can sense all scattered information without human interventions, and can modernize forensics tools and methods, and thus artificial Intelligence comes into the picture.
How AI helps digital forensics
AI technology increases the chances of identification and investigation of cybercrimes with ease. Withal forensics expert gets to root cause easily and efficiently. Apart from that, it helps to solve cybercrimes promptly and saves a lot of expenses. Here is some more feature of AI which makes forensics process effortless.
Knowledge representation
This feature is all about intelligently task-performing. It can be utilized to come up with a better solution to keep up with cyber-attacks.
Expert system
Expert system is another feature that makes digital forensics an easy task. This feature explains the actual cause behind the process and conclusion obtained during the digital forensics process.
Recognition of patterns
This feature helps an analyst spot and identify data clusters. It plays an important role in determining the content of a picture, detecting spam email messages, and recognizing the folders of hard drives that contain questionable files.
Conclusion
AI is ready to become the future of Digital forensics. Though it will not necessarily mean that it will create job loss for human investigators and analysts. Tools that will be powered by AI technology can certainly lighten the burden and would be as how case at upcoming DFIR conference. As we know digital forensics is a complex process and it needs huge time, expertise, resources while investigating a case, so why not rely on AI to make all complex process efficient, accurate, effortless, and less expensive