Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Title : | Development of an IoT based forensic infrastructure for extraction, analysis and detection of cybercrime evidence from digital images and surveillance videos in an IoT framework |
Area of research : | Computer Sciences and Information Technology |
Focus area : | Digital Forensics, IoT Security |
Principal Investigator : | Dr. Ruchira Naskar, Indian Institute Of Engineering Science And Technology, West Bengal |
Timeline Start Year : | 2023 |
Timeline End Year : | 2026 |
Contact info : | ruchira.naskar@gmail.com |
Details
Executive Summary : | "The field of IoT forensics combines digital forensics and IoT to collect, analyze, and preserve traces of cyber criminal activities in IoT infrastructure. This research aims to develop a forensic infrastructure for analysis of digital evidences of probable cyber crime or related malicious activities, based on 100% data post-processing. This approach contrasts with traditional IoT security measures, which enforce diverse security protocols to prevent attacks. The major area of work will be data used in an IoT framework, such as digital images and surveillance videos. The project aims to build an IoT-based digital forensic infrastructure to extract and analyze cyber crime evidences left behind in IoT devices, detecting any traces of illegal modification to generated data. Conventional IoT devices have low memory and computation power, making traditional forensic algorithms difficult to run on them. The focus is on IoT forensic measures, where cyber crime detection is done through 100% post-processing, eliminating the dependency of security protocols on any a-priori precaution.
The proposed research includes investigating feature dimensionality optimization techniques and reducing feature dimension for scalability. The focus is on homogeneous feature sets for attack prediction, unlike current literature that uses heterogeneous feature sets. The research also investigates the presence of cyber forgery in plain images/videos and encrypted domains to preserve privacy in IoT-based computations. The final deliverable will be a GUI-based software application that supports multiple scalable forensic models for detection of prevalent forms of cyber attacks suitable for IoT devices." |
Co-PI: | Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, Indian Institute Of Engineering Science And Technology, Howrah, West Bengal-711103 |
Total Budget (INR): | 21,22,450 |
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