The advent of Windows 10 has caused controversy among users and forensic investigators alike. Many end users have concerns regarding privacy and security, since the privacy settings that are automatically set up on devices with Windows 10 are not at all strong. Others have expressed concerns about the way Windows machines are now forcing users to migrate to Windows 10, even if they are happy with their current versions.
From a forensic perspective, Windows 10 presents a number of new and unique challenges. Most of the programs have been modified to look and feel more like the applications you would see on a smartphone or tablet, and a lot of them behave quite differently from their predecessors. The advent of Cortana has given forensic investigators even more data to work with, and the amount of data has also increased in line with the interconnected nature of many...