The utilization of forensic corpora in validation of data carving on SATA drives

Abstract

The field of digital forensics has become more prevalent in the court of law due to the increase of availability of technology. With digital evidence coming up in court consistently, digital forensics and its tools are coming under scrutiny and being held against disciplines that are more standardized. Validation and Verification of tools is vital to maintaining the integrity of the evidence received by them. Utilizing standardized data sets, or forensic corpora, as a part of validation and verification techniques has shown to be effective. The goal of the study is to assess the use of forensic corpora in the validation and verification of one of the most commonly used digital tools.