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A Domain Specific Language For Digital Forensics And Incident Response Analysis, Christopher D. Stelly
A Domain Specific Language For Digital Forensics And Incident Response Analysis, Christopher D. Stelly
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
One of the longstanding conceptual problems in digital forensics is the dichotomy between the need for verifiable and reproducible forensic investigations, and the lack of practical mechanisms to accomplish them. With nearly four decades of professional digital forensic practice, investigator notes are still the primary source of reproducibility information, and much of it is tied to the functions of specific, often proprietary, tools.
The lack of a formal means of specification for digital forensic operations results in three major problems. Specifically, there is a critical lack of:
a) standardized and automated means to scientifically verify accuracy of digital forensic tools; …