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A Survey on the Internet of Things (IoT) Forensics: Challenges, Approaches, and Open Issues

Technische Universität Berlin · Hellenic Mediterranean University

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Abstract

Today is the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). The recent advances in hardware and information technology have accelerated the deployment of billions of interconnected, smart and adaptive devices in critical infrastructures like health, transportation, environmental control, and home automation. Transferring data over a network without requiring any kind of human-to-computer or human-to-human interaction, brings reliability and convenience to consumers, but also opens a new world of opportunity for intruders, and introduces a whole set of unique and complicated questions to the field of Digital Forensics. Although IoT data could be a rich source of evidence, forensics professionals cope with diverse…

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Keywords
  • Computer science
  • Digital forensics
  • Computer security
  • Digital evidence
  • Cloud computing
  • Network forensics
  • Software deployment
  • Encryption
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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