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Recovery of Forensic Artefacts from a Smart Home IoT Ecosystem

Authors:
M A Hannan Bin Azhar
Samuel Benjamin Louis Bate

Keywords: Internet of Things Forensics; Internet of Things ecosystem forensics; Digital forensics; Smart Home; Internet of Things; Amazon Alexa; Nest Camera; Smart-Bulb.

Abstract:
This paper reports an investigation into a modern smart-environment ecosystem comprising of multiple Internet of Things devices: Amazon Echo, Nest Indoor Camera and Philips Hue smart-bulb. As of yet, there is still little to no documentation, nor established methodology for the examination, acquisition and documentation of evidentiary artefacts from a smart-environment. Much of the research still remains individual to each device and does not incorporate the “melting pot” reality of most smart-environments. The methodology outlined in this paper was artefact-centric, and was purposely designed to facilitate the creation, discovery and documentation of network-native, cloud-native and device-native artefacts. Whilst not all aspects of the investigation were successful, a strong groundwork of documentation of the artefacts present on each of the smart-devices examined has been compiled, so as to inform and lay the foundations for future studies on this area of research.

Pages: 94 to 99

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: September 22, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8599

ISBN: 978-1-61208-743-6

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 22, 2019 to September 26, 2019