Digital Investigation covers a broad array of subjects related to crime and security throughout the computerized world. The primary pillar of this publication is digital evidence, with the core qualities of provenance, integrity and authenticity. 
This widely referenced publication promotes innovations and advances in utilizing digital evidence for legal purposes, including criminal justice, incident response, cybercrime analysis, cyber-risk management, civil and regulatory matters, and privacy protection. Relevant research areas include forensic science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, and smart technology. 
This journal is used by investigative agencies and forensic laboratories, computer security teams, practitioners, researchers, developers, and lawyers from industry, law enforcement, government, academia, and the military to share their knowledge and experiences, including current challenges and lessons learned in the following areas: 
Research and development: Novel research and development in forensic science, computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence applied to digital evidence and multimedia. New methods to deal with challenges in digital investigations, including applied research into analysing digital evidence and multimedia, exploiting specific technologies, and into preparing for and responding to computer security incidents. 
Cyber-criminal investigation: develop new methods of online investigation and analysis of financially motivated cyber-crime such as banking Trojans, phishing, ransomware and other forms of cyber-fraud. In addition, researching future criminal activity involving peer-to-peer payments and crypto currencies. 
Cyber-risk management: Improved ways of using digital evidence to address security breaches involving information systems, methods to find zero day attacks and to perform cyber threat intelligence. The techniques and findings of digital investigations are essential in drawing post-incident conclusions, which are vital feedback components of the security policy development process, and managing risk appetite. 
Case Notes: Brief investigative case studies with practical examples of how digital evidence is being used in digital investigations, forensic analysis, and incident response. Case Notes can also describe current challenges that practitioners are facing in cybercrime and computer security, highlighting areas that require further research, development or legislation. The format for Case Notes is simple and short: case background, any technical or legal challenges, the digital evidence involved, processes and/or tools used, and outcomes (e.g., solutions, barriers, need for R&D). Please check the following example for preferred Case Note format: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742287618301713. 
Scientific practices: Novel approaches to strengthening the scientific foundation and rigor of digital investigations, and to increasing the reliability of and confidence in processes, analysis methods, results, and conclusions involving digital evidence. 
Effective practices: Studies that assess new practices in digital investigations and propose effective approaches to handling and processing digital evidence. 
Survey papers: Discussion of current methods and future needs relevant to digital investigations, including analysing digital evidence and multimedia from computers, smart technology, mobile phones, memory, malware, network traffic, as well as systems that support enterprises, telecommunications, and satellites. In addition, advanced approaches to analysing digital evidence and multimedia, including novel applications of artificial intelligence and data analytics. 
Application analysis: Novel approaches to analysing applications on mobile devices and computers from a digital forensic perspective. Analysis may include configuration and log data, network telemetry and cloud storage, live memory artifacts, and indications of compromised and abused applications. Proposed methods should go beyond a single version of an application and be generalized to multiple versions of an application, or a general category of applications (e.g. social networking), on multiple platforms (Android, iOS). In addition, strong work in this area will extend the functionality of an existing open source tool, or provide a new open source tool. Also of interest are approaches to performing validation and quality assurance of forensic software that must be updated frequently to support new applications. Such papers should be structured around investigative questions that are commonly encountered in digital investigations, concentrating on the users and their activities rather than only on technical elements. 
Tool reviews: Evaluation and comparison of specialized software and hardware used to preserve, survey, examine, analyse or present digital evidence and multimedia, deepening our understanding of specific tools, and highlight any needed enhancements. 
Future challenges: Analysis of new technologies, vulnerabilities and exploits which may create opportunities for criminality and/or computer security incidents, but which require further work in order to determine how their use can be investigated and the evidential opportunities they may create. 
Registered reports: Studies that assess methods critically, and evaluating the reliability, statistical power, and reproducibility of results. Such reports can include tests and experiments with negative results, not just positive. 
Legal analysis and updates: Carefully considered commentary by legal experts on recent cases involving digital evidence, forensic applications and computer security risk management, relevant legal developments, privacy issues, and legislative limitations. 
Evidence accessibility: exploring safe, fair, and feasible methods of acquiring digital evidence from protected sources such as DRM, encrypted traffic, encrypted storage, and locked proprietary devices, while taking individual privacy and ethical aspects into consideration.
Author Note: General methods for detecting forgery in digital photographs or videos are not within scope of DIIN, and will be rejected without review. To be within scope of this Journal, any novel forgery detection method must be evaluated using datasets that are representative of actual digital investigations. In addition, improvements over existing methods must be clearly demonstrated. It is recommended that authors provide a working implementation of their proposed method to enable others to test it using their own datasets for comparison with existing methods.

Research and development
Cyber-criminal investigation
Cyber-risk management
Case Notes
Scientific practices
Effective practices
Survey papers

Editor-in-Chief
Eoghan Casey
University of Lausanne School of Criminology and Forensic Science, Lausanne, Switzerland Email Eoghan Casey
Associate Editors
Zeno Geradts
Nederlands Forensisch Institute, Rijswijk, Netherlands 
(For: Digital Forensic Science, Multimedia Evidence, Biometrics, Deep Learning, Big Data Analysis)
Bruce Nikkel
Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland 
(For: Incident response, Cyber intelligence and investigation, Financially motivated cyber-crime) 
Legal Panel
Chris Kelly
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Marco Provvidera
New York, USA
Brian Roux
Hanry Law
Giuseppe Vaciago
Milano, Italy
Ian Walden
London, United Kingdom
Editorial Board
David Baker
The Mitre Corporation, McLean, Virginia, United States
Brian Carrier
Basis Technology Corp, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Michael Cohen
Velocidex Innovations, Australia
Pavel Gladyshev
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Chris Hargreaves
University of Oxford / HARGS Solutions Ltd, United Kingdom
Hans Henseler
University of Applied Sciences Leiden / Tracks Inspector
David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nigel Jones
Technology Risk Limited, London, United Kingdom
Nicole Lang Beebe
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Troy Larson
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States
Angus Marshall
n-gate ltd, Darlington , United Kingdom
Golden Richard III
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Vassil Roussev
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Bradley Schatz
Schatz Forensic, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Peter Sommer
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Philip Turner
DXC Technology UK and Ireland, United Kingdom
Board of Referees
Frank Adelstein
Architecture Technology Corporation New York (ATC-NY), Ithaca, New York, United States
Philip Anderson
Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Olga Angelopoulou
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Cosimo Anglano
Università del Piemonte Orientale Computer Science Institute - DiSIT, Alessandria, Italy
Endre Bangerter
Bern Fachhochschule, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland
Andrew Barnes
UK Home Office, United Kingdom
Justin R Bartshe
Naval Criminal Investigative Service, United States
Suman Beros
SEC ITFL
Raoul Bhoedjang
Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
David Billard
HEG - School of Business Administration, Switzerland
Georg Blome
Alexandre Borges
Black Storm Security
Owen Brady
UK Financial Services Regulator, United Kingdom
Frank Breitinger
University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Susan Brenner
University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States
Sam Brothers
US Customs and Border Protection, United States
Ian Bryant
Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, London, United Kingdom
Emlyn Butterfield
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom
Federico Cervelli
Reparto Investigazioni Scientifiche Carabinie, Parma, Italy
Yoan Chabot
Orange Labs Research and Development, Belfort, France
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
University of South Australia Division of IT Engineering and the Environment, Adelaide, Australia
Fred Cohen
All.Net & Affiliated Companies, Livermore, California, United States
David A. Dampier
Mississippi State University, United States
Suvrojit Das
National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, India
Ali Dehghantanha
University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Patrick De Smet
Institut National de Criminalistique et Criminologie, Brussels, Belgium
Jason Doyle
National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, United States
Denis Edgar-Nevill
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Tobias Eggendorfer
Eggendorfer IT-Beratung & Datenschutz, Germany
Mattia Epifani
Reality Net
Barry Foster
Standard Charted Bank
Kevvie Fowler
Virginia Franqueira
University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
Eric Freyssinet
Pôle Judiciaire De La Gendarmerie Nationale, Pontoise France
Ian Fulton
Forensic Science Northern Ireland, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, United Kingdom
Benjamin, C.M. Fung
Benjamin, C.M. Fung
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Simson Garfinkel
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg Maryland, United States
Thomas Gloe
TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Kate Greenwood
UK Financial Conduct Authority, United Kingdom
George Grispos
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Justin Grover
The Mitre Corporation, McLean, Virginia, United States
Irvin Homem
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Chet Hosmer
WetStone Technologies, Inc, A Div. of Allen Corporation, Ithaca, New York, United States
Solal Jacob
ArxSys SAS, France
Joshua I. James
Hallym University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Andy Johnston
University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States
Jim Jones
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Costas Katsavounidis
3K Ventures
Jim Kempvanee
LogicForce
Ian Kennedy
Canterbury Christ Church University, School of Engineering and Technology, Kent, United Kingdom
Gary Kessler
Gary Kessler Associates, Burlington, Vermont, United States
Coert Klaver
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Dept. of Digital Technology and Biometrics, Den Haag, Netherlands
Christopher Kollmann
Baltimore County, Towson, Maryland, United States
Jesse Kornblum
Facebook Inc, Menlo Park, California, United States
Kenji Kurosawa
National Research Institute of Police Science, Chiba, Japan
Frank Law
Hong Kong Police Force, Commercial Crime Bureau, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Rob Lee
Sans Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Andrina Y.-L. Lin
Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau
Kevin Manson
Cybercop Portal, Arlington, Virginia, United States
Andrew Marrington
Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ben Martini
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Vico Marziale
Blackbag
Bryan McCaffrey
Ambient Data
David McClelland
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Keith McDonald
National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC), London, United Kingdom
Robert Jan Mora
Shell Information Technology International B.V
Holger Morgenstern
Sachverstaendigen-Buero Morgenstern (Sachverständigen-Büro Morgenstern), Gammertingen, Germany
Srinivas Mukkamala
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, United States
George Noel
Affiliation Defense Information Systems Agency
Erika Noerenberg
Logrythm
Owen O'Connor
Cernam Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
Jan-Jaap Oerlemans
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Richard Overill
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Yin Pan
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, United States
Jungheum Park
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg Maryland, United States
Gilbert L. Peterson
U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio, Ohio, United States
Emmanuel Pilli
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
Ryan Pittman
NASA Office of Inspector General Computer Crimes Division, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States
Darren Quick
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Alexander Rasin
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Indraskhi Ray
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Frederick Rehault
Pôle Judiciaire De La Gendarmerie Nationale, STRJD, ROSNY SOUS BOIS CEDEX, France
Mark Roeloffs
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Digital Technology, The Hague, Netherlands
Curtis Rose
Curtis W. Rose & Associates LLC, Laurel, Maryland, United States
Mark Russinovich
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States
Julie Ryan
National Defense University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Paul Sanderson
Sanderson Forensics Ltd., Bicester, United Kingdom
Mark Scanlon
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Ruud Schramp
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands
Andreas Schuster
Vivento Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, Germany
Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Eric Shaw
Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Stroz Friedberg, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Todd Shipley
Vere Software, Reno, Nevada, United States
Thomas Souvignet
Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale (IRCGN), France
Iain Sutherland
University of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taff, WALES, United Kingdom
Joe Sylve
Blackbag
Gergely Tapolyai
DC3 Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA), United States
John Thackray
Thackray Forensics Ltd., Onerahi, Whangarei, New Zealand
Vrizlynn Thing
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore
Ben Turnbull
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Bart Vanautgaerden
NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
Harm van Beek
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Department of Digital Technology and Biometry, The Hague, Netherlands
Ronald Martijn van der Knijff
Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
Erwin van Eijk
Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
Jan Peter van Zandwijk
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Department of Digital and Biometric Traces, The Hague, Netherlands
Cor Veenman
Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands & Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Hein Venter
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Tim Vidas
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Rob Zirnstein
Forensic Innovations, Inc., United States