Citation

Tassone CF, Martini B, Choo KR. J. Forensic Sci. 2017; 62(5): 1197-1204.

Affiliation

Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249-0631.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.13431

PMID

28144943

Abstract

Digital forensic visualization is an understudied area despite its potential to achieve significant improvements in the efficiency of an investigation, criminal or civil. In this study, a three-stage forensic data storage and visualization life cycle is presented. The first stage is the decoding of data, which involves preparing both structured and unstructured data for storage. In the storage stage, data are stored within our proposed database schema designed for ensuring data integrity and speed of storage and retrieval. The final stage is the visualization of stored data in a manner that facilitates user interaction. These functionalities are implemented in a proof of concept to demonstrate the utility of the proposed life cycle. The proof of concept demonstrates the utility of the proposed approach for the storage and visualization of digital forensic data.

© 2017 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Language: en

Keywords

MSAB XRY; digital forensics; forensic science; forensic visualization; geographic map plots; mobile device forensics; treemap; word cloud