Comprehensive Review on Data Preservation Models and Standards in Digital Forensic

Data preservation is absolutely crucial in digital forensics, ensuring the integrity and admissibility of digital evidence in court. Without strict collection and preservation protocols, such evidence risks being thrown out. To achieve this strict procedure, data preservation models and standards such as Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS), Three-legged Stool model and Digital Curation Lifecycle Model, provide a framework for secure collection, storage, and management of digital evidence, ensuring its long-term reliability and legal defensibility. This research conducts a comprehensive review of these models and standards in terms of their functions and implementation to establish a comprehensive approach. By understanding the strengths and complementary nature of these models and standards, stakeholders in data preservation can foster the creation of improved procedures and develop better data preservation procedures which can ultimately strengthening the foundation of digital forensics. This research suggests that strict data preservation protocols like OAIS offer the most comprehensive lifecycle for managing digital evidence. Additionally, implementing these models integrated with privacy algorithms, stakeholders can address the evolving challenges of digital forensics in the face of new technologies with the current need of privacy algorithms in data preservation to ensure more secured and ever-increasing data volume.