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DFPulse: The 2024 digital forensic practitioner survey
Congratulations to Christopher Hargreaves and co-authors Frank Breitinger, Liz Dowthwaite, Helena Webb, and Mark Scanlon on the publication of DFPulse: The 2024 digital forensic practitioner survey in Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation.
Co-authors: Frank Breitinger, Liz Dowthwaite, Helena Webb, and Mark Scanlon.
AI-generated summary of the contribution: This paper reports on the DFPulse survey, the largest digital forensic practitioner survey to date, conducted in 2024. The survey collected data from 122 practitioners worldwide, providing insights into their operating environments, technologies used, challenges faced, and future research directions. The study aims to improve collaboration between academia and practitioners, addressing the gap between research and practice in digital forensics. The survey’s results highlight the importance of understanding the needs and objectives of practitioners to ensure that researchers are tackling the right problems. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the survey results, including quantitative and qualitative data, and discusses the implications for academia, the improvements that can be made, and future research directions. The paper also presents a dataset containing the responses to the survey, allowing researchers and the academic community to further analyze and inform their future research directions.