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Digital forensic investigations: a new frontier for Informing Systems

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Author

  • Peter Bednar
  • Vasilios Katos

Editor

  • Alessandro D'Atri

Summary, in English

Digital forensic investigators experience a need for support in their everyday struggle to overcome boundary problems associated with cyber crime inves-tigations. Traditional methods are socio-culturally and physically localised and dependent on strict and historically prescriptive political management. The new internet-worked cyber-world creates unprecedented difficulties for digital forensic investigations. This is directly linked with the inherently complex uncertainties and ambiguities related to a constant need for framing and re-framing of problem spaces under investigation. As such, in this paper we propose the recruitment of the discipline of Informing Systems in the context of digital discovery. Early findings of such an exercise indicate that informing systems approaches can assist the investigation process by offering means for structuring uncertainty. As it is accepted that uncertainty is an inherent element in a crime scene, not least in a cyber crime scene, we consider the contribution of Informing Systems vital for the effectiveness of digital forensic investigation practices.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

1-11

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Rome: CERSI

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • Contextual Analysis
  • Critically Informed Analysis
  • Complex Systems
  • Systems Analysis
  • Digital Forensic
  • Contextual Inquiry

Conference name

ItAIS 2008: The 5th Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems

Conference date

2008-12-12 - 2008-12-13

Conference place

Paris, France

Status

Published