Digital Forensic Research Direction

Digital forensics have passed through its golden era as suggested by Simpson Garfinkle raises an important question in front of digital forensic research community i.e. whats next for digital forensics? What will be he future of digital forensics? What does end of golden era mean? Can we expect the platinum era to start sometime soon. What are the next generation challenges and what direction the digital forensic research take? These are some of the very important questions. However things which will not change are the speed of change of technology and quest for providing convenience, which will increase the scope of incidents and digital forensic research has to match up with speedy development of solutions which are not only scalable but also efficient, economical and do not hinder in the convenience of the users. The cycle of technological changes has gathered speed and hence technologies become obsolete before even they are fully utilized. Thus scalability and speed of development of digital forensic solutions  are the need of the hour.