Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient privacy-preserving investigation
Computer forensics and privacy protection fields are two conflicting directions in computer security. In the other words, computer forensics tools try to discover and extract digital evidences related to a specific crime, while privacy protection techniques aim at protecting the data owner’s privacy...
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| author | Halboob, Waleed Abduljabbar Mohammed Mahmod, Ramlan Udzir, Nur Izura Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik |
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| description | Computer forensics and privacy protection fields are two conflicting directions in computer security. In the other words, computer forensics tools try to discover and extract digital evidences related to a specific crime, while privacy protection techniques aim at protecting the data owner’s privacy. As a result, finding a balance between these two fields is a serious challenge. Existing privacypreserving computer forensics solutions consider all data owner’s data as private and, as a result, they collect and encrypt the entire data. This increases the investigation cost in terms of time and resources. So, there is a need for having privacy levels for computer
forensics so that only relevant data are collected and then only private relevant data are encrypted. This research paper proposes privacy levels for computer forensics. It starts with classifying forensic data, and analyzing all data access possibilities in computer forensics. Then, it defines several privacy levels based on the found access possibilities. The defined privacy levels lead to more
efficient privacy-preserving computer forensics solution. |
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| spelling | upm-430632016-06-07T08:42:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43063/ Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient privacy-preserving investigation Halboob, Waleed Abduljabbar Mohammed Mahmod, Ramlan Udzir, Nur Izura Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik Computer forensics and privacy protection fields are two conflicting directions in computer security. In the other words, computer forensics tools try to discover and extract digital evidences related to a specific crime, while privacy protection techniques aim at protecting the data owner’s privacy. As a result, finding a balance between these two fields is a serious challenge. Existing privacypreserving computer forensics solutions consider all data owner’s data as private and, as a result, they collect and encrypt the entire data. This increases the investigation cost in terms of time and resources. So, there is a need for having privacy levels for computer forensics so that only relevant data are collected and then only private relevant data are encrypted. This research paper proposes privacy levels for computer forensics. It starts with classifying forensic data, and analyzing all data access possibilities in computer forensics. Then, it defines several privacy levels based on the found access possibilities. The defined privacy levels lead to more efficient privacy-preserving computer forensics solution. Elsevier 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43063/1/Privacy%20Levels%20for%20Computer%20Forensics%20Toward%20a%20More%20Efficient%20Privacy-preserving%20Investigation.pdf Halboob, Waleed Abduljabbar Mohammed and Mahmod, Ramlan and Udzir, Nur Izura and Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik (2015) Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient privacy-preserving investigation. Procedia Computer Science, 56. pp. 370-375. ISSN 1877-0509 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915017032 10.1016/j.procs.2015.07.222 |
| spellingShingle | Halboob, Waleed Abduljabbar Mohammed Mahmod, Ramlan Udzir, Nur Izura Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient privacy-preserving investigation |
| title | Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
| title_full | Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
| title_fullStr | Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
| title_short | Privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
| title_sort | privacy levels for computer forensics: toward a more efficient
privacy-preserving investigation |
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