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Digital forensics tools

Abstract:

This article will address a very important issue in the computer world, even more so considering that has had great growth over time as well as the area of Computer Forensics. The great value and importance of the information that is stored on a single hard drive to a storage cloud, causes a great interest in many individuals, who perform unethical acts such as theft and alteration of information through the use large network called the Internet. These tools used in Computer Forensics are programs or critical applications that are dedicated to obtaining information for use as evidence or evidence necessary for certain legal act, where the main crime scenes could say, are the computers and network it is connected. That is why proceed to analyze tools that meet features and functions solely for processes in the aforementioned area. So this research is based on an analytical, bibliographical, documentary and correlational study; because it has proceeded to obtain reliable information from literature sources such as books and scientific papers; besides having a rigorous process of analysis. Was obtained as a result that "Paraben's P2 Commander 3.6" tool showed a wide range of functionality for process computer forensics, this tool offers many processes that the computer forensic need for their work in computer security, all focused from the view of the functions that allow a thorough analysis of computer evidence in the case or incident.