Indexador e processador de evidências digitais (iped): um poderoso software forense computacional

Abstract

With the increase of connectivity in the modern world, computer networks have become fundamental for virtually any type of communication. Military systems, governmental organizations and private individuals use the Internet to carry out their activities and millions of bytes of sensitive data pass through these computer networks every day. In addition, organized crime also uses the Internet as a means to carry out the most varied crimes. In this way, cybernetic vestiges of extreme importance are traveling through these networks right now, and one of the biggest challenges in Forensic Computing is the exact identification of the location (s) covered in a certain criminal scenario, whose main evidence is digital information. Now the vestiges are not confined within a well-defined perimeter, but scattered in a series of environments that need to be properly addressed by the professional in charge of elucidating these facts. In this sense, this work will present, through bibliographic research, the forensic tool called Indexer and Digital Evidence Processor (IPED) created by the Brazilian federal police, from a complex operation, to facilitate and optimize investigative processes. Its functions, its advantages in relation to other software available on the market and its functioning will be presented.