Forensic Tools Crossword

5. Popular forensic software used for investigating digital evidence.
6. Technique used to ensure data integrity during forensic analysis.
7. General term for physical components, such as hard drives or smartphones, analyzed in forensics.
9. Procedure of assessing forensic software’s functionality before use in investigation.
10. Hardware tool used to prevent alteration of data during acquisition.
13. Windows database often analyzed using forensic software to track user activity.
16. Documentation ensuring evidence is handled securely and correctly.

1. Exact copy of a storage device, often created during evidence acquisition.
2. Process of verifying the credibility of forensic evidence through hashing.
3. Testing a forensic tool against known data sets to evaluate its performance.
4. Process of ensuring forensic tools produce accurate and reliable results.
8. Tool used for analyzing memory dumps in forensic investigations.
11. Value used to verify data integrity, often generated during validation.
12. Forensic software known for file system and registry analysis.
14. Open-source digital forensics tool for investigating disks and file systems.
15. Process of creating a bit-by-bit copy of a storage device.