Network Forensics and Digital Time Travel

Network forensics is the capture, storage and analysis of network traffic. You might also hear the term referred to as "packet mining," "packet forensics," or "digital forensics." Regardless of the name, the concept is the same, with the objective to record every packet and the data it contains moving across the network and storing it for some period of time. Simply put, this means having a network recorder that would allow you to see all emails, database queries, Web browsing activity, etc.