Digital Forensics in IoT Enabled Smart Environment: Need of the Hour

Abstract

Digital Forensics is a branch of forensic science that performs the task of data investigation, recovery and interpretation. The impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) can be seen everywhere now, but somehow it is quite difficult to identify the challenges posed by IoT criminals. It becomes possible to identify the offender of fraud attacks, cyber threats, security attacks, and computer frauds using digital forensics investigation mechanism. Numerous security challenges are faced in IoT enabled smart infrastructures. Digital forensic experts and law enforcement agencies can efficiently perform investigation processes in the cyber world. This paper provides a brief overview of IoT, its working, and need of digital forensics in an IoT enabled smart environment. In the present paper, vulnerabilities and cyber crimes existing in IoT environment also have been highlighted along with possible solutions. Various phases of digital forensics also have been discussed in the present paper.