Why Computer Forensics?
Computer Forensic Techniques help provide a methodological and systematic approach to gathering information on computer systems and networks, which could be cryptic and hidden and which would otherwise be extremely hard to get through normal routine access to computer resources. Normally a computer system or network on which forensic science techniques are to be applied hides the data or garbles the data through encryption, steganography or other technical methods. The process of first analyzing the system, gathering important data fragments which are prevalent over the system and interpreting it with the use of certain mechanisms and tools, is the process which is called as computer forensics. Let us see what are the techniques used in computer forensics: Basic Computer Forensic Techniques For Computer Networks For computer networks, the following are the forensic techniques that are most commonly used – • Packet Sniffing Sniffing, in normal language means sensing something and here t
