Digital Forensic Science in Indian Ecommerce Environment

Abstract

In today’s environment crimes are becoming more digitised and more sophisticated.  This sophistication of crime leads not only users but also companies to lose some important data. Protecting the data and users requires a strong forensic techniques and knowledge of the investigation process. In Indian scenarios, frauds are predominant in domains such as financial services and real estate and infrastructure.

               Even though there is a rise in cybercrime activities, most of the times forensic investigation tools were not used. One of the main reasons for the same is the business criticality of the application. Because of which, the system can neither be slowed down nor shut down. This leads to further increase in cyber-attacks to the storage, network and applications of business systems.     As per research conducted by previous researchers, India has the internet user base of 450 million. Approximately 15% of the users have a digital experience of more than three years. This makes fraud detection in Indian ecommerce industry all the more relevant.

               The research is not intended to provide a complete view of all factors to be considered for forensic tool selection. But it has taken some areas which seems to be important for the choice of the tools. The present study makes a comparison of the select tools based on platform, capability, reporting, and tool support. Among the forensic tools available in the market, the researcher indicates that CAINE and SIFT can be considered important. CAINE forensic platform provides all the forensic tools that are required in the investigation process like preservation, collection, examination and analysis. SIFT provides tools for in-depth investigations for file systems, memory and network investigations.