Use of Network Forensic Mechanisms to Formulate Network Security
International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) ISSN: 0975-5586 (Online); 0975-5926 (Print) http://airccse.org/journal/ijmit/ijmit.html Article: Use of Network Forensic Mechanisms to Formulate Network Security Authors Dhishan Dhammearatchi, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Computing (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka Abstract Network Forensics is fairly a new area of research which would be used after an intrusion in various organizations ranging from small, mid-size private companies and government corporations to the defence secretariat of a country. At the point of an investigation valuable information may be mishandled which leads to difficulties in the examination and time wastage. Additionally the intruder could obliterate tracks such as intrusion entry, vulnerabilities used in an entry, destruction caused, and most importantly the identity of the intruder. The aim of this research was to map the correlation between network security...