Iot Digital Forensics Blockchain: Design and Establishment of a Trust Chain for Securing Digital Evidences for Internet of Things (II)

  • Hsu, Chien-Lung (PI)
  • Luo, Jia-Ning (CoPI)
  • Tsai, Kuo Yu (CoPI)
  • Yang, Ming-Hour (CoPI)

Project: National Science and Technology CouncilNational Science and Technology Council Academic Grants

Project Details

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) is a rapid developed, diversified, and complex network environments, which involves divestible objects, networks, computing models, the system platforms. With the rapid development of technologies and innovative applications of global Internet of things, people highly expect that the new technology will change our life style and create new digital society. While this technology has brought convenience and automation, but it may also bring new information security threats and risks. New pattern of computer crime might be plotted in such a connected and integrated environment. IoT digital forensics face many challenges in Internet of things, since the data/digital evidences generated by IoT are very complex, diverse, scattered and come from multiple sources, etc. Apart from the difficulty of computer crime detection and the inability to effectively safeguard the information security of IoT, it will affect the IoT-based information application environment such as the security of critical infrastructure. Hence, few work on discussions how to establish a secure and trust IoT digital forensics environment. The project has been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology for "Information Security Practices Projects Project Grant (106/8/1 to 107/7/31)" and the implementation of a digital forensics and analytics cloud for internet of things. The project has been implemented for 5 months. Preliminary results have been completed, a practical innovation system platform has been developed, relevant research papers have been published, patent documents are being drafted and planning to participate in the next international invention competition. Based on this achievement and in view of deepening the research results, the project will continue to plan the next two year project - "Digital Forensics and Analysis Cloud Platform for the Internet of Things (II)". This 2-years integrated project intends to design and establish a digital forensics and analytics cloud for internet of things, which is a secure, trust, crime traceable and digital forensics platform. This cloud will provide a comprehensive and secure cloud service for crime detection, digital forensics, and analytics. This project consists four sub-projects as follows:(1) Sub-Project I -- IoT digital forensics blockchain: design and establishment of a trust chain for securing digital evidences for IoT (II): This sub-project intends to establish a secure blockchain for protection and retrival of IoT digital evidences. Integrity, accuracy, consistency, and compliance of IoT digital evidences will be achieved.(2) Sub-Project II -- Design and implementation of a virsualization platform of IoT digital evidences and a lightweight authentication protocol (II): This sub-project intends to design and implement a virsualization and query platform for digital investigators to easily find out potential crime pattern.(3) Sub-Project III -- Network forensics for anonymous crime sources (II): This sub-project intends to detect crime source only using one network packet without storing packets in routers. The digial investigators will effectively detect anonymous attack source.(4) Sub-Project IV -- Analysis and identification of mobile trail of suspects by wireless location technology (II): This sub-project intends to detect, analyze, and forensics suspects’ mobile trails.

Project IDs

Project ID:PB10708-1254
External Project ID:MOST107-2221-E182-006
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date01/08/1831/07/19

Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • Digital Forensics
  • Blockchain
  • Chain of custody
  • Digital Evidence
  • Cloud Computing

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