Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Digital Forensics has recently gained a notable development and become the most demanding area in today's information security requirement. The book investigates the areas of digital forensics, digital investigation, and data analysis procedures as they apply to computer fraud and cybercrime, with the main objective of describing a variety of digital crimes and retrieving potential digital evidence. Big Data Analytics and Computing for Digital Forensic Investigations gives a contemporary view on the problems of information security. It presents the idea that protective mechanisms and software must be integrated along with forensic capabilities into existing forensic software using big data computing tools and techniques"-- Provided by publisher.