The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Forensics

Yash Gorasiya
5 min readSep 25, 2023

As the digital landscape continually evolves, so do the criminal activities within it. Today the cybercrime sector grandly expands its arm, necessitating the need for more robust and efficient ways to investigate it. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI), a promising tool offering significant improvements in the field of digital forensics.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Breaking down the Basics

Before diving deep into how AI revolutionizes digital forensics, it’s vital to understand AI at its core. Artificial Intelligence, often known simply as AI, is a broad domain within computer science that aims to create systems capable of performing tasks requiring human intelligence. These tasks include learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding.

AI isn’t a new concept; however, its prevalence and influence in our daily lives have surged in the past decade. From AI-powered recommendation systems, like those used by Netflix or Amazon, to intelligent assistants like Siri and Alexa, AI is omnipresent.

AI in Digital Forensics: A Potential Game-Changer

Digital forensics is a field that involves the investigation of digital devices and cyber networks to uncover and interpret electronic data. The goal is to preserve any…

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Yash Gorasiya

Associate Project Manager at The SecOps Group || Technical Writer at The SecOps Group || Cyber Security Writer at VulnMachines