Cybercrime Investigation: Panorama, Challenges and Solutions

Cybercrime is deeply ingrained in the present era and is not a new danger. Cyber technologies create a new paradigm for the criminal, enabling them to commit crime without leaving any traces of evidence behind them. Policing cybercrime has become a herculean task because of the all-pervasive nature of the Internet and the definition of crime being national in nature. There exist a number of Principal Interest groups which constitute nodes of Internet Governance. The role of the public police has to be understood within the light of the informal architecture of Internet Policing. It will help one to understand the vast range of cross-jurisdictional and cross-sectoral impediments which police have to face in order to fully participate in the policing of Internet. The only two digital leads available to the Investigating Authorities are- Internet Protocol Address and Online Digital Handles. In order to understand the intricacies of these leads, the police officials require special training. The investigation procedure is further disturbed by other impediments like lack of reporting of cybercrimes, surveillance and privacy concerns, encryption, search and seizure issues and anonymity and attribution problems.