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Security Techniques in Communications Networks Applied to the Custody of Digital Evidence

Abstract:

As new technologies spread in organizations with a growing influence of digital transformation, security challenges began to identify new threats and increasing attacks. Threat and vulnerability detection have encouraged cybersecurity professionals’ new methods and techniques accompanied by tools that guarantee digital evidence’s admissibility in the short and long term. This project establishes a set of security techniques applied in communication networks that ensure adequate digital custody. To answer the research question, it is planned to carry out a process of four stages: state of the art, description of the security methodologies and techniques applied in communication networks, diagnosis of the methodologies or techniques used by the justice operators, and the synthesis of acceptable practices applied with good techniques on the networks of the custody of digital evidence. The essential part of this project consists of the diagnosis made to the main operators of the Judicial Council of Chimborazo Province, which determines that these operators do not have the knowledge, methodologies, techniques, and resources for the preservation and admissibility of the digital evidence, resulting in an extensive vulnerability for Cybercriminals to access the information being it altered, modified, or destroyed.