Title
Criteria for Validating Secure Wiping Tools.
Abstract
The validation of forensic tools is an important requirement in digital forensics. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has defined standards for many digital forensic tools. However, a standard has not yet been specified for secure wiping tools. This chapter defines secure wiping functionality criteria for NTFS specific to Windows 7 and magnetic hard drives. The criteria were created based on the remnants of user actions - file creation, modification and deletion - in $MFT records, the $LogFile and the hard disk. Of particular relevance is the fact that the $LogFile, which holds considerable forensic artifacts of user actions, is not wiped properly by many tools. The use of the proposed functionality criteria is demonstrated in an evaluation of the Eraser secure wiping tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24123-4_19
ADVANCES IN DIGITAL FORENSICS XI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tool validation,secure wiping functionality,NTFS,$LogFile forensics
Digital forensics,Computer science,Computer security
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
462
1868-4238
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Sharjeel Zareen110.36
Baber Aslam21078.33
Monis Akhlaq3224.11