How AI is Transforming Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigations

By Kaushal Bheda, Director at Pelorus Technologies

Forensics once meant fingerprints, footprints, and witness statements. Investigators depended on what people saw or remembered. Investigations moved at a slow pace. Today, every person leaves a digital trail via smart phones, smart watches, laptops, CCTVs, and connected cars. These digital devices are your new eyewitnesses. They quietly record where you go, what you do, who you talk to, and when you do it.

But this new world has brought in a new problem for the investigating officer, which is a deluge of data. Every phone now holds thousands of photos, years of messages, full app histories, and location logs down to the minute. Smartwatches record pulse data and sleep cycles. CCTVs capture hours of footage every day. One case can easily involve terabytes of information. What was supposed to help solve cases is now slowing the pace of solving ...