Solution Guide

Introduction 7

Introduction

In recent years there has been an exponential increase in the volume, velocity,

variety, and sophistication of digital activity by criminals and terrorist groups

around the world. Today, most crimes have a digital component. Some have

called it a digital tsunami. This growth has been augmented by dramatic

advances in electronic hardware. The expanding diversity of consumer

electronic devices and their increasing memory and storage capacity offer

criminals and terrorists a wealth of opportunity to hide harmful information.

It is not uncommon for PCs and laptops to come with hard drives that measure

in the hundreds of Gigabytes of storage. The latest hard drives include options

for one or four Terabytes. Consider that a single Terabyte can store the content

of two hundred DVDs: a vast amount of storage representing a problem that will

only continue to grow.

From PCs to laptops, mobile phones to thumb drives and even game consoles,

digital forensics professionals are being pushed to the limit to clone, ingest,

index, analyze, and store growing amounts of suspect data while preserving the

digital chain of custody and continuing to protect citizens.

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