Inter‐regional digital forensic knowledge management: needs, challenges, and solutions

Abstract

Increasing demand for digital evidence in criminal investigations is driving decentralization of forensic capabilities closer to the crime scene. Law enforcement agencies are struggling to keep pace with technological developments, cybercrime growth, and scientific advances. In federated environments, digital forensic knowledge and practices vary widely across regions. To reduce delays, wasted resources, missed opportunities, mistakes, and misinterpretations, there is a pressing need to balance the democratization of digital forensic capabilities with knowledge management and sharing between decentralized regions. There are multiple forms of knowledge to be managed, including procedural, technical, investigative, scientific, behavioral, crime analysis, and forensic intelligence. In addition, there are multiple knowledge producers and consumers, including police investigators, digital forensic practitioners, criminal intelligence analysts, attorneys, and judges. Knowledge management becomes even more challenging when multiple interdependent regions are involved, speaking different languages. Taking all of these factors into consideration, this work presents an inter‐regional knowledge management solution for improving the quality, consistency, reliability, efficiency, cost‐effectiveness, and return on investment of digital forensic capabilities. The basis of this work is a community‐driven initiative of Swiss regional police authorities. Interviews were conducted with 15 digital forensic units to determine their current knowledge management practices and needs. The results were then generalized into a prioritized set of requirements for inter‐regional digital forensic knowledge management that may be applicable in other countries. These requirements were used to evaluate knowledge management platforms, and one was selected. Implementation, operations, and maintenance challenges of an inter‐regional digital forensic knowledge management platform are discussed.

Maintenance of Regional Languages and Traditions Through the Preservation of The Togal Manika Makean Tribe of North Maluku

“…As mentioned above, the situation diglossion can be seen from two classifications: first, the use of Makean language in the realm of language low (BR). This realm is often referred to as informal situations (Casey & Zehnder, 2021;Naqshbandi et al, 2019). Realm divided into four: the family domain, relatives, neighbors, and friends.…”

Cryptocurrency Investigations in Digital Forensics: Contemporary Challenges and Methodological Advances

“…The brisk technological trajectory in the cryptocurrency domain signifies an imperative for perpetual learning among investigators [44,45]. The significance of continual training to remain abreast of novel tools and methodologies is underscored.…”

Analysis on Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Knowledge Exchange Efficiency in Life Science Journals under the Background of High Quality Development

“…The average number of authors shows the average degree of collaboration between authors, not to mention the input of the journal. Therefore, excluding the index of fund paper ratio and average number of authors, the number of citations and the average number of citations were selected as the input index [12]. In terms of output indicators, compound impact factor and compound total citation are important quantitative indicators to measure the influence of journals, and the number of cited journals is an indicator reflecting the breadth of periodical knowledge diffusion.…”