A Framework for Digital Forensic Investigation of Big Data

With the development of internet technology, the era of big data with data explosion has come. As a result, the types and the amount of data that need to be processed in cybercrime investigations are increasing. It is a great challenge to find the clues or evidences of crime from the massive data. The emergence of big data technology has brought new directions for digital forensics investigations. It is of practical significance to integrate big data technology and digital forensics to crack down on cybercrime. This paper proposes a big data forensics framework which describes the process and related technologies. In addition, the challenges to realize this framework have been taken into consideration.