From the course: Network Forensics
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Current and future trends
- [Narrator] Changes in technologies are a dominant driving force in how we conduct a network forensics investigation. Take cloud computing, many companies have abandoned the idea of maintaining their own server rooms. They use cloud service providers or CSPs and keep their servers in the cloud. The use of CSPs complicates the job of forensic specialists. One of the immediate challenges is access. Cloud service users or CSUs don't manage the network connecting the computer resources they're using. What this means is that CSUs lack full visibility into the network activities relevant to an investigation. There is also no way to get access to physical media like solid state drives or SSDs. Although presenting new challenges, advances in technologies also provide unprecedented opportunities. Big data and artificial intelligence or AI are two such developments. Computer networks generate an excessive amount of data. Until recently we didn't have any means to process them effectively to…
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