Internet of things forensics: Challenges and Case Study

TL;DR

This paper discusses the unique challenges of IoT forensics, reviews current issues, and presents a case study analyzing forensic artifacts from a smartwatch device.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of IoT forensics challenges and introduces a case study on forensic analysis of a smartwatch device.

Findings

Identified key challenges in IoT forensic investigations.

Analyzed forensic artifacts from a smartwatch device.

Discussed evidence alignment with IoT forensic challenges.

Abstract

Today is the era of Internet of Things (IoT), millions of machines such as cars, smoke detectors, watches, glasses, webcams, etc. are being connected to the Internet. The number of machines that possess the ability of remote access to monitor and collect data is continuously increasing. This development makes, on one hand, the human life more comfort- able, convenient, but it also raises on other hand issues on security and privacy. However, this development also raises challenges for the digital investigator when IoT devices involve in criminal scenes. Indeed, current research in the literature focuses on security and privacy for IoT environments rather than methods or techniques of forensic acquisition and analysis for IoT devices. Therefore, in this paper, we discuss firstly different aspects related to IoT forensics and then focus on the cur- rent challenges. We also describe forensic approaches for a IoT device smartwatch as a case study. We analyze forensic artifacts retrieved from smartwatch devices and discuss on evidence found aligned with challenges in IoT forensics