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MN624 Digital Forensics - Melbourne Institute of Technology

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. Apply socio-technical contexts in analysing the digital forensic evidences.

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

c. 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 listed at Part A. Your tutor will allocate you a group number (maximum four students in a group) and your topic. 90 marks

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 another 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 report 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 among them the best technique

Analyse the challenges and Propose/ Review a number of solutions that can be taken to overcome these challenges

Invetsigate the relevant forensic tools that can be used to address the challenges of the above case

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 cloud forensics.

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.

Review the Cloud Forensics Issues & Challenges.

Describe the issues in cloud computing that would affect the forensic investigation.

List of challenges facing the cloud forensic investigation .

List the digital forensics tools that could be useful for doing cloud forensics invetsigation.

Discussion of technologies and techniques in the existing solutions and future works

Propose/ Review a number of solutions that can be taken to overcome these challenges

Topic 3- Applying Digital Forensics to Social network: Challenges and approaches

Social network services (SNSs) contain intersteing information such as conversations between users, user location information, personal network, and user psychology. This information can be useful for digital investigation.

Write a research survey of the forensic challenges in social network and analyze their most recent solutions and developments. Your article should cover the following points.

History and background of the topic.

Conduct a litretrature review of the topic and discuss the articles' finding.

Challenges and Approaches in Online Social Networks.

Issues during Forensic Investigations Involving the Cloud

Digital Forensics as a Big Data Challenge.

Current social network Forensic Investigations.

Identify important data sources and analytical methods for automated forensic analysis on social network

Propose/ Review a number of solutions that can be taken to overcome these challenges.

List the digital forensics tools that could be useful for doing social networking forensics with brief description about the tools' operation.

Examined the performance of four forensic tools.

Complete the assignment (minimum 5 and maximum 8 pages) including all the sections below.

Title (maximum 15 words)

Abstract (200 - 250 words)

Introduction (500 - 1000 words)

Literature Review (1000 - 3000 words)

Main body (1000 - 3000 words)

Conclusion (200 - 300 words)

Future Works (150 - 300 words)

References (minimum 10 references)

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 Challenges and approaches.rar