IoT and the role of cyber forensics1
Patrick Wilds · 2021
The Internet of Things (“IoT”) refers to the ability of everyday objects to connect to the Internet and to send and receive data. Many definitions include functionality examples to better clarify how the systems operate and the interrelation between devices and entities within and outside the IoT. The things, or devices, are designed to operate independent of the need for user input to start a process or function. In the early 1980s several graduate students and an engineer at Carnegie Mellon University set about the task of modifying a Coke machine with sensors that would monitor the stock and temperature of soda. A toaster is more widely believed to be the first IoT device. In 1989, Interop President Dan Lynch challenged John Romkey to connect a toaster to the Internet. IoT devices change this paradigm by offering an ever-growing list of functions that can be performed outside the need of user intervention to start, or continue, an operation.