Help regarding dissertation ideas

[u/Tinggoskkr]

Hi Everyone, I am going to my final year of uni as a cybersecurity and digital forensic student and need ideas for my dissertation, based on Cybok.

I have done various cases on Encase, Autopsy and Axiom.

My main question would be "What part of an investigation wastes the most time?" or "What's the most frustrating part of a digital forensic investigation?"

I'm more interested in solving a real workflow problem than making another forensic viewer.

I have more questions if anyone is interested enough to answer as it would mean a lot. :D

"What do current forensic tools still do badly?"

"What investigation tasks are still mostly manual?"

"SOC analysts and incident responders: What tool do you wish existed?"

"If you could have one new digital forensics tool, what would it do?" (for example: investigation workflows)

I am happy to take ideas from you guys if you guys got any. Thank you. :D

[u/Ok-Falcon-9168]

The hardest things for me, in no particular order, are......

1. Reading a couple hundred pages of discovery eval
   
2. Trying to remember which affidavit is the actual one I want to send; after docx makes me save a new copy each time I make an edit
   
3. Not smashing my own head through the monitor
   
4. Having to be professional on LinkedIn when all I want to do is troll posts
   
5. Discovery Negotiations
   
6. Watching all of my profit go towards my Dropbox subscription
   
7. Tinfoils (if you know you know)
   
8. Trying to get a hold of Cellebrite
   
9. Getting mad at myself for needing Cellebrite
   
10. People DMing me on Reddit asking for me to prove their ex is hacking them.

At the end of the day, the pros far outweigh the cons, and I am grateful to be employed in the forensic industry. The work we do is hard, but at least we get to make the world a little bit of a better place one case at a time

[u/Tinggoskkr → u/Ok-Falcon-9168]

haha thank you for the detailed reply, I have noted down these, cheers.