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European Cybersecurity Atlas

Incident Handling and Digital Forensics

The theories, techniques, tools and processes for the identification, collection, acquisition and preservation of digital evidences.

The subdomains for this knowledge domain are:

  • Incident analysis, communication, documentation, forecasting (intelligence based), response, and reporting
  • Theories, techniques and tools for the identification, collection, attribution, acquisition, analysis and preservation of digital evidence
  • Vulnerability analysis and response
  • Digital forensic processes and workflow models
  • Digital forensic case studies
  • Policy issues related to digital forensics
  • Resilience aspects
  • Anti-forensics and malware analytics
  • Citizen cooperation and reporting
  • Coordination and information sharing in the context of cross-border/organizational incidents