Audit and research challenges in digital forensics

New dimensions to computer misdemeanors such as information leakages, masquerading, electronic fraud, deformation of corporate cultures and identities through fallacious electronic publicities are alarming across the globe. Hence, corporate organizations are facing serious challenges in coming up with security frameworks that will adequately safeguard their assets and liabilities on a daily basis. Unfortunately, corporate assets have several inherent vulnerabilities while available forensic computer scientists, forensic accountants, laws and litigation that will restrict illegal activities over the web are weak because of the discrepancies in the regulatory activities of different countries to cite a few. Thus, this paper presents a critical review of emerging challenges in auditing digital logs. The review provides useful guidelines that can be used to improve computer usage across the globe and to ultimately lessen the success rate of computer related frauds in corporate organizations.