A Recommended Digital Forensic Readiness Framework For Nigerian Banks

Abstract

With the coming of the internet manual method of doing businesses has change dramatically to a computerized way of doing operations, similarly it also possess a threat to information security. Consequently, organizations’ that fells to address or take serious security measures are likely to fall under cyber-attacks, therefore vital information will be damage. To minimize such occurrences in both public and private organization there is a need to have digital forensic framework that they will be used in other to protect sensitive information from being compromise. Digital forensic framework (DFR) helps to exploit the use of evidence and also reducing the cost of investigation. Moreover, to prepare an organization for incident respond DFR policies and procedures are important to be implemented. Therefor this paper has proposed a framework that will be used to minimize attacks to sensitive information by cyber attackers, the framework was designed by surveying the existing frameworks available so as to find the suitable components to be used in Nigerian banking sectors and a qualitative approach was used to seek expert view on the proposed framework, the results shows the components are likely to be used in most financial sector in Nigeria as it covers the major components needed for investigations.