DFPulse: The 2024 Digital Forensic Practitioner Survey
This paper reports on the largest survey of digital forensic practitioners to date (DFPulse) conducted from March to May 2024
resulting in 122 responses. The survey collected information about practitioners’ operating environments, the technologies they
encounter, investigative techniques they use, the challenges they face, the degree to which academic research is accessed and
useful to the practitioner community, and their suggested future research directions. The paper includes quantitative and qualitative
results from the survey and a discussion of the implications for academia, the improvements that can be made, and future research
directions
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