Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

Preface

Cyber security and digital forensics are an important topic nowadays, which provides many challenging issues in relation to security, identity, intrusion detection, advanced threat detection, privacy preservation etc. 

The goal of this edited book is to outline the cyber security and digital forensic challenges and future trends. The book focuses on how to secure computers from hackers and how to deal with obtaining, storing, evaluating, analysing and presenting electronic evidences. Current threats are getting more complicated and advanced with the rapid evolution of adversarial techniques. Networked computing, and portable electronic devices have broadened the role of digital forensics beyond traditional investigations into computer crime.

The main focus of this book is to provide the reader with a broad coverage of the topics that includes different concepts, models, and terminology along with examples and illustrations to show substantial technical field details. It motivates readers to practice tougher security and defense processes to cope with attackers and mitigate the situation. Practically every crime now requires some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and instruments for articulating these evidences. Digital forensics also has a number of uses for information. In addition, it has a crucial role to play in information security, security breach investigations yield useful knowledge which can be used to develop more secure ...