Research project Digital Forensics and the Internet of Things

Digital forensics is a discipline concerned with collecting, preserving and analyzing digital evidence in criminal investigations. Imagine for example that the police find a smartphone at a crime scene. A digital forensic expert will then (carefully) investigate the smartphone to recover digital traces in order to move the investigation forward.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ongoing trend where an increasing number of “things” get digitized and internet-connected. Examples include smart phones, smart homes and smart vehicles.

For better or worse, IoT-devices exist everywhere. Therefore, they contain valuable traces. However, data from IoT devices often ends up in foreign datacenters where the police cannot reach it. Our increased reliance on IoT also makes us vulnerable to cybercrime.

This is Johannes Olegård’s PhD thesis project.
Stefan Axelsson is the supervisor, Yuhong Li is the co-supervisor.