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Digital Forensics Assignment - Digital Forensics: Challenges and approaches

Unit Learning Outcomes covered in this assessment - Students should be able to demonstrate their achievements in the following unit learning outcomes:

a. Investigate the nature and extent of a network intrusion.

b. Demonstrate competence in applying industry-standard forensic analysis techniques.

Assignment Description -

Tasks: There are two parts to this assignment, i.e. part A and part B.

A. Write a review article on one of the following topics (Topic 1). Your tutor will allocate you a group number (maximum four students in a group) and your topic.

B. Presentation.

Part A description:

Topic 1 - Internet of Things Forensics: Challenges and approaches

Today is the era of Internet of Things (IoT), millions of machines such as cars, smoke detectors, watches, glasses, webcams, and other things that have the ability to connect, collect and exchange data over a wired and wireless network are being connected to the internet. The number of machines that possess the ability of remote access to monitor and collect data is continuously increasing. This development makes, on one hand, the human life more comfortable, convenient, but it also raises on other hand issues on security and privacy. However, this development also raises challenges for the digital investigator when IoT devices is involved in criminal scenes. Your article should cover the following points.

• Histrory and background of the Internet of Things Forensics
• Compare between traditional digital forensics vs. IoT forensics
• Describe forensic approaches for IoT devices
• Address the issues of IoT forensics
• Discuss the type of evidences that could be found with challenges in IoT forensics
• Analyse and discuss the significance of digital forensics for the IoT ecosystem
• Analyse and review the existing techniques for IoT forensics and identify the best technique
• Propose/ Review a number of solutions that can be taken to overcome these challenges
• Challenges and analysis of their possible solutions.

Topic 2 - Cloud Forensics: Challenges and approaches

Cloud computing may well become one of the most transformative technologies in the history of computing. As a result of the technology and methods used in cloud computing, the forensic investigation techniques face different types of issues while inspecting the case. Write a research survey of the forensic challenges in cloud computing and analyze their most recent solutions and developments. Your article should cover the following points.

• Describe forensic approaches for IoT devices
• Discuss the type of evidences that could be found with challenges in Cloud computing
• Analyse and discuss the significance of digital forensics for the Cloud computing.
• A Review of Cloud Forensics Issues & Challenges
• Describe the issues in cloud computing
• List of challenges and analysis of their possible solutions.

Instructions: Prepare your article as below

1. Go to the IEEE website and download the WORD template for the format.

2. Read and familiarize yourself with the instructions carefully.

3. Prepare a paper using the IEEE format and the example attached. Follow the template if there are any confusions. Also, refer to the link below to have ideas about how to start.

4. Complete the assignment (minimum 5 and maximum 8 pages) including all the sections below. The number of words will be counted thoroughly and you must keep the minimum number of words to avoid any penalties.

• Title (maximum 15 words)
• Abstract (200 - 250 words)
• Introduction (500 - 1000 words)
• Literature Review (700 - 2000 words)
• Main body (1000 - 2000 words)
• Conclusion (200 - 300 words)
• Future Works (150 - 300 words)
• References (minimum 10 references)

6. The article must be a 'Review' article including at least 5 references and not more than 25.

7. Strictly follow the IEEE reference format for in-body citations and the references section.

8. Contents must include:

• History and background of the topic
• Challenges and drawbacks
• Possible options (solutions) and future research areas proposed
• Include a minimum of two (2) figures to show the overall concept and summarized overview of the topic from the review of minimum 10 - 15 (but not limited to) papers
• If applicable, include a table to summarize the result of findings.

Part B description:

Prepare slides (between 5 - 10 slides) for presentation during the lab class. Read the instruction attached carefully.

Attachment:- Digital Forensics Assignment File.rar