Digital forensics: India's opportunity

Now is the time for digital forensics to rise from obscurity and claim its place of prominence in the digital domain

The Ministry of Defence, located in the historic South Block, enforces a regulation allowing only feature phones within its premises, as smartphones pose a potential risk of sensitive information leakage. Security is a concern for many organisations. While the gates of such sensitive premises have scanning systems for bags and conduct body searches, they lack the ability to inspect the digital devices that people carry. What is lacking is a real-time forensic scan of the digital devices. However, significant developments are underway in the emerging domain of digital forensics, and one can expect that such machines will be available soon.