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An Ontological Approach to Study and Manage Digital Chain of Custody of Digital Evidence
Jasmin Ćosić
; Ministry of the Interior of Una-sana canton, IT Section of Police Administration, Bihać, B&H
Zoran Ćosić
Miroslav Bača
; Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia
Abstract
Chain of custody of digital evidence in digital forensic field are today essential part of digital
investigation process. In order the evidence to be accepted by the court as valid, chain of
custody for digital evidence must be kept, or it must be known who exactly, when, where, why
and how came into contact with evidence in each stage of the digital investigations process.
This paper deals with digital evidence and chain of custody of digital evidence. Authors define
taxonomy and use an ontological approach to manage chain of custody of digital evidence.
The aim of this paper was to develop ontology to provide a new approach to study and better
understand chain of custody of digital evidence . Additionally, developed ontology can be
used as a method to further develop a set of standard and procedures for secure management
with digital evidence.
Keywords
ontology; digital evidence; chain of custody of digital evidence; chain of evidence; digital forensic
Hrčak ID:
69671
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Publication date:
27.6.2011.
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