The global digital forensics market size reached USD 6.9 Billion in 2024. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach USD 14.3 Billion by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 8.35% during 2025-2033. The rising cases of cybercrimes are encouraging companies and governments to invest in better tools for investigating digital threats, which is stimulating the market.
Digital forensics refer to the process of analyzing, recovering, interpreting and uncovering electronic data. It is widely used to collect information and prosecute all types of crimes, including financial frauds, thefts, and murder, gain additional evidence, and prevent and suspect further crimes from happening. Digital forensics deals with the investigation, recovery, evaluation and extraction of evidence from digital sources, such as laptops, computers and mobiles. It assists in reducing sampling risk, efficiently tracking down cybercriminals, ensuring integrity, producing evidence in the court, and extracting, processing, and interpreting the factual evidence. As a result, digital forensics is widely used in the telecommunications and information technology (IT) sector, government and enforcement agencies, and banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) industry.
Digital Forensics Market Trends:
The increasing incidences of cybercrimes in the BFSI industry across the globe is driving the growth of the market. Digital forensics aid in supporting the quick and precise investigation of financial frauds and solving cases. In line with this, the increasing availability of easy internet connection, along with the proliferation of various network-based applications and devices, such as e-mail services, computers, cloud-based technologies, internet banking and smartphones are favoring the market growth. Moreover, various technological advancements, such as the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with digital forensics to precisely observe commonalities in communication and detect elements in photos and videos are providing an impetus to the market growth. Additionally, the increasing product demand to recover deleted files from digital devices and obtain encrypted data due to the rising fraud and identity theft cases is positively impacting the market growth. Other factors, including significant improvements in information technology (IT) infrastructure, and the implementation of various government initiatives to promote advanced security solutions protecting sensitive data are creating a positive outlook for the market.
Key Market Segmentation:
IMARC Group provides an analysis of the key trends in each segment of the market, along with the digital forensics market forecast at the global, regional, and country levels for 2025-2033. Our report has categorized the market based on component, type, tool, and end user.
Breakup by Component:
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