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Evolving smart environments making use of IoT wares in conjunction with the evolving security threats in these intelligent systems poses several challenges in forensic investigation of security breaches and cyber crimes involving such devices. This paper explores these challenges and emphasizes on the need for enhancing the capabilities of existing tools for forensic analysis. The contribution of this paper is multifold. First, it enlists the potential threats in the world of intelligent systems, and second, it enumerates the challenges to forensic analysis of crimes involving intelligent devices as subject and/or object. Third, it comments on the capability of existing forensic tools to handle the challenges. Fourth, it proposes the required features for a revamped forensic analysis framework for intelligent systems. The study holds the potential to guide a way towards implementation of technical solutions to handle the challenges envisaged in the ever-evolving smart environment’s investigations.
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Girija Devi, M.S., Nene, M.J. (2019). Security Breach and Forensics in Intelligent Systems. In: Satapathy, S., Joshi, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 107. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1747-7_33
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