Role and Impact of Digital Forensics in Cyber Crime Investigations

Cybercrime is a growing problem, but the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and successfully prosecute criminals for these crimes is unclear. While law enforcement agencies have been conducting these investigations for many years, the previously published needs assessments all indicated that there is lack the training, tools or staff to effectively conduct investigations with the volume or complexity included in many of these cases. This study discussed on Cybercrime and Global Economic Growth, Reasons for Conducting a Digital Forensic Investigation, Various Branches of Digital Forensics in details, Potential Source of Digital Evidence, standard operating procedure for digital evidence, Legal Aspects and What the Future Holds in the field of digital forensics.