Proposing a method for Skype Forensic-preserving data evidences to present in front of court of law

Abstract

Skype is one of the most widely being used application in government sectors as well as in corporate world. Skype facilitates with several advantages. Today almost all the companies rely on Skype for all their official communication as it provides an easy to use interface for communication sitting at a single location. But, at the moment, no government organization considered preservation as a major concern. Thus, performing Digital Forensics and data preservation in case of Skype is a challenging task. This arises the requirement to store the sensitive communication the safeguard the evidences of digital communication. As per the perspective of Information Technology Act 2000/2008, to safeguard the legal admissibility of the digital records, it is mandatory to capture and preserve the digital evidences of digital data and electronic records. This paper includes the glimpse of existing mechanisms and challenges in Skype. Through this paper, implementation of proposed work for Skype will be performed that will help investigator to collect the strong data evidence.