Digital Forensics Market to Hit 4.8 Billion USD in Revenues by 2020

According to Market Research Report, “Digital Forensics Market Analysis - By Forensic Tools; By Application (Network Forensics, Mobile Forensics, Database Forensics, Computer Forensics) - Forecast (2015 - 2020)”, published by IndustryARC, Increasing Opportunities from eDiscovery and Cloud Computing Channels to Drive the Digital Forensics Market to $4.8 Billion in Revenues by 2020

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Digital forensics is a branch of forensic science and is defined as the process of obtaining, interpreting and uncovering electronic data from electronic storage devices. The purpose of this process is to preserve the probative value of any evidence so that it can be of use in a court of law. The exponential growth in volume of data with the proliferation of a wide variety of devices and formats has led to rise in use of digital forensics. According to research conducted by IndustryARC, the maximum use of Digital Forensics is done by the federal sector and will grow from $1,097.2 Million in 2015 to $2,060.5 Million by 2020. The concerns of corporate sector regarding IP theft, data protection and security are also being addressed with digital forensics. Many banking institutions are pro-actively using digital forensics tools to study the digital footprint and online behavior of their employees.

Challenges to cloud forensics can broadly be categorized into technical, legal, and organizational challenges. Such challenges occur when technical, legal, or organizational tasks become impeded or prevent the examination by the digital forensics examiner. There are many stakeholders involved in cloud forensics activities, including members of government, industry, and academia. Presence of different cloud architectures, need for data collection from virtual machines, role of anti-forensics, data ownership role management issues, jurisdiction and privacy concerns and lack of trained personnel are the main challenges faced by this budding segment currently.

Various forensics tools are used in various sectors, namely private, government, federal and corporate. The private companies prefer private investigators so as to maintain confidentiality and the government monitors and analyze cyber-crimes through digital forensics. Similarly, federal agencies use digital forensic science to prosecute criminals, investigate crimes, collect evidences, and train examiners for duties within a nation while corporate sector use digital forensics to monitor and solve the corporate frauds.

Electronic discovery or eDiscovery is the process in which electronic data is sought, searched, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in legal case. eDiscovery tools are being used to identify duplicate documents via hashing and some also detect near-duplicates. eDiscovery tools are currently also being used in law enforcement and in regulatory agencies of most of the developed countries. The present applications of these tools have shifted from providing a simple review of a client for a non-technical investigator to the entire lifecycle of complex cases with various teams working together on an investigation. The developments in technology have added different ways of working and also have raised the need of high investment. The range of people involved has increased to understand all the dimensions of the case. The implications are discussed with investigators along with the technical staff so as to achieve a working solution.

In order to maintain integrity, different countries in different regions have formed few regulations. Article 313-A in Brazil, Regulations of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) in UK, Article 285 in China are few examples of regulations that are based on the access to data and penalty in case of data modification or wrong entry in data records are made. 

Other Key Companies include MSAB (Mobile forensics), Rits (eDiscovery). Majority of the companies operating in the digital forensics market are privately held and revenues are not disclosed to the general public. Moreover since the business operates and thrives on secrecy, client confidentiality, these companies remain private and any consulting work done, tenders, agreement with clients and sales achieved are not announced. Companies also tend to operate in specialized segments such as mobile forensics, network forensics and so on, though they do provide services across the digital forensics market applications or industries.

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