SoK: Exploring the State of the Art and the Future Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Forensic Investigation
This paper addresses the problem of digital forensic backlogs for law enforcement agencies by exploring AI solutions, providing an incremental overview of current and future potential.
Digital forensic investigations face significant backlogs due to the overwhelming volume of cases and data. This paper reviews existing AI-based tools and approaches in digital forensics, highlighting their potential to automate evidence processing and expedite analysis.
Multi-year digital forensic backlogs have become commonplace in law enforcement agencies throughout the globe. Digital forensic investigators are overloaded with the volume of cases requiring their expertise compounded by the volume of data to be processed. Artificial intelligence is often seen as the solution to many big data problems. This paper summarises existing artificial intelligence based tools and approaches in digital forensics. Automated evidence processing leveraging artificial intelligence based techniques shows great promise in expediting the digital forensic analysis process while increasing case processing capacities. For each application of artificial intelligence highlighted, a number of current challenges and future potential impact is discussed.