Enhancing Digital Forensics Techniques 4 Wireless Environments

• In Event: Cybercrime Risks in Emerging Wireless Networks

Abstract

The number of wireless devices, especially Internet of Things (IoT) devices that lack computing resources, is growing rapidly (according to Statista and Fortune Business Insights, the number of connected IoT devices is expected to reach 25-30 billion by 2030). It is therefore expected that criminal activities will increasingly focus on these types of devices. However, IoT environments not only have peculiarities from a technological point of view, but also from a human factor perspective. These specificities therefore require adapted approaches for digital forensics to cope with such reality. In this paper, a novel digital forensics approach called Wholistic IoT Forensics Paradigm is presented, which extends the traditional forensics approaches by considering not only IoT technology but also human factors and the emerging paradigms of quantum computing. It is expected that this approach will also enable certain organizational and legal advancements to address the said issues holistically. Recent developments have taught us that technological advances in the IT field cannot be abstracted into legal countermeasures in the traditional way (e.g. to ensure technological neutrality). Therefore, approaches such as the one in this paper may also lead to future legislative developments in this area

Author

• Denis Trcek, FRI University of Ljubljana