An insight into digital forensics branches and tools

As the adoption of the Ubiquitous Computing is growing with accelerated pace, cyber crime is also expanding and crime investigation is maturing into a more challenging issue which needs to be confronted. Many advanced digital forensic tools have been developed but investigation of most of the cyber crimes is difficult due to the lack of effective forensic processes and specialized tools. Cyber crime investigation requires effective forensic plan and efficient tools for forensic analysis. In this paper, various digital forensics branches along with the available forensics tools have been discussed. The efficiency and effectiveness of the various tools have been compared based on their features. This work is very much useful for security practitioners, Forensic researchers and law enforcement agencies in exploring the various available forensic tools and their capabilities to deal with the issues in cyber forensics.