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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2006.16.4.69

An Efficient Method of Forensics Evidence Collection at the Time of Infringement Occurrence  

Choi Yoon-Ho (School of EECS at Seoul National University)
Park Jong-Ho (School of EECS at Seoul National University)
Kim Sang-Kon (School of EECS at Seoul National University)
Kang Yu (KT)
Choe Jin-Gi (KT)
Moon Ho-Gun (KT)
Rhee Myung-Su (KT)
Seo Seung-Woo (School of EECS at Seoul National University)
Abstract
The Computer Forensics is a research area that finds the malicious users by collecting and analyzing the intrusion or infringement evidence of computer crimes such as hacking. Many researches about Computer Forensics have been done so far. But those researches have focussed on how to collect the forensic evidence for both analysis and poofs after receiving the intrusion or infringement reports of hosts from computer users or network administrators. In this paper, we describe how to collect the forensic evidence of good quality from observable and protective hosts at the time of infringement occurrence by malicious users. By correlating the event logs of Intrusion Detection Systems(IDSes) and hosts with the configuration information of hosts periodically, we calculate the value of infringement severity that implies the real infringement possibility of the hosts. Based on this severity value, we selectively collect the evidence for proofs at the time of infringement occurrence. As a result, we show that we can minimize the information damage of the evidence for both analysis and proofs, and reduce the amount of data which are used to analyze the degree of infringement severity.
Keywords
Computer Forensics; Infringement Severity; Evidence Collection;
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