Cybercrime Investigator: - A Comprehensive Resource in Crime Scene Investigation and Litigation

Abstract

This research paper discusses about the professionalism of a cybercrime investigator as a subject matter expert in the domain of legal investigation who is solely accountable for detecting, combating crimes. He plays a predominant role in recognizing and apprehending the cybercrimes, compiling evidence and assisting in the prosecution of the offenders. A Cybercrime detective ought to have expert technical competency in the domain of cyberspace, an insightful analysis of perpetrator deducing strategies, updated emerging e-threats, innovative technologies, and connect with the legal regulation pertaining to modus operandi. Cyber Crime Investigator should employ legally accepted techniques, devices for tracing digital footprints, analysing data, and reconstructing the series of events associated with cybercrimes. A wide range of crimes are being investigated, which includes hacking, identity fraud, online scams, malware assaults, phishing scams, and data spills. A professional investigator needs to be aware of the introspection, and it should be in a deliberate mechanism acceptable in the court of law. There is no such defined structure or a specific investigation framework for detecting, but they have to follow certain essential features like fundamental and significant concepts, legal rules and processes while investigating. Intelligence tests are notoriously an imprecise endeavour, generally executed in response to unforeseeable situations and there are still emerging events with insufficient knowledge to guide the process. Cyberespionage, e-terrorism, Social Engineering frauds, etc are booming Cyber Crimes where an investigator needs to connect the facts of the case, laws, and evidences to substantiate a case with prima facie by converting all technical evidences, audit evidences and other testimonial evidences in a forensically sound manner, acceptable in a court of law for a prosecution, verdict, remedial and getting relief measures. The detectives  of cybercrime cases should implement both reactive measure as a corrective control, once a crime has already triggered and there is a intent  effect , with the inputs, watchwords, or modus operandi from reactive threat as well as work on threat hunting, as a proactive approach to detect emerging threats before an incident happens implementing a deterrent control, preventing control and compensatory controls as a Forensic Scientist to invent as many controls as a protection  in-depth mechanism.