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Evaluation of Digital Forensic Tools in MongoDB Database Forensics

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Wide usage of online applications has increased the risk of misuse of data by affecting privacy and security policies. Digital forensics is a process of solving criminal cases related to digital devices. Technical growth in this area is the expansion of forensic tools to collect the pieces of evidence. Database forensics is one of the categories of digital forensics. Database forensics covers the scanning of various parts of it for data recovery or finding data tampering. Forensic tools are available for most of the relational databases. Very few tools are available in the market for NoSQL databases. This paper is an attempt to present available digital forensic tools and to experiment with relevant free tools on the MongoDB database to check the usefulness.

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  1. College of Engineering Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Wellesely Road, Shivajinagar, Pune, 411005, India

    Rupali Chopade & Vinod Pachghare

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Chhabi Rani Panigrahi

  2. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Bibudhendu Pati

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Prasant Mohapatra

  4. Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

  5. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

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Chopade, R., Pachghare, V. (2021). Evaluation of Digital Forensic Tools in MongoDB Database Forensics. In: Panigrahi, C.R., Pati, B., Mohapatra, P., Buyya, R., Li, KC. (eds) Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1198. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6584-7_40

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