Implementation of digital forensics investigations using a goal-driven approach for a questioned contract

This paper introduces a new systematic process for describing digital investigations that focuses on forensic goals and anti-forensic obstacles and their operationalisation in terms of human and software actions. The main contribution of the paper is to demonstrate how this process can be used to capture the various forensic and anti-forensic aspects of a real world case study involving document forgery.

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