NDLI: Model-Based Generation of Synthetic Disk Images for Digital Forensic Tool Testing

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yannikos, Y. Winter, C.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Fraunhofer Inst. for Secure Inf. Technol. SIT, Darmstadt, Germany (Yannikos, Y.; Winter, C.)
Abstract	Testing digital forensic tools is important to determine relevant tool properties like effectiveness and efficiency. Since many different forensic tool categories exist, different testing techniques and especially suitable test data are required. Considering test data for disk analysis and data recovery tools, synthetic disk images provide significant advantages compared to disk images created from real-world storage devices. In this work we propose a framework for generating synthetic disk images for testing digital forensic analysis tools. The framework provides functionality for building models of real-world scenarios in which data on a storage device like a hard disk is created, changed, or deleted. Using such a model our framework allows simulating actions specified in the model in order to generate synthetic disk images with realistic characteristics. These disk images can then be used for testing the performance of forensic disk analysis and data recovery tools.
Starting Page	498
Ending Page	505
File Size	325083
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550084
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2013.65
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-02
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Digital forensics Buildings Synthetic disk image generation Markov processes Hard disks Markov chains Data models model-based simulation forensic tool testing disk analysis tools Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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