Enhancing computer forensics investigation through visualisation and data exploitation

Proceedings - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1012-1017

  Osborne, Grant ^a   Turnbull, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer forensics; Data exploitation; Digital evidence; Visual data analysis; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER FORENSICS; DATA EXPLOITATION; DIGITAL EVIDENCE; VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS; VISUALISATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349673742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2009.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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