IoT Forensics: Addressing Challenges and establishing a Framework for Exploring Digital Forensics
Shauban Ali Solangi · Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences · 2025
Digital forensics requires potential and insightful analysis of the Internet of Things (IoT) environment as compared to the traditional methodology of digital forensics. A variety of technology and technical devices including sensors, cloud computing, and RFIDs used in IoT environments. The utilization of such heterogeneous technology results in a huge volume of data raising security challenges in the IoT environment. Cloud resources face challenges such as identification and preservation related to digital evidence. In that manner, cloud forensics gets new technical and legal challenges in the provision of digital computing threats. Cloud forensics has faced significant complications in evidence collection, investigation, and extraction. On the other hand, IoT digital forensics faces both technical challenges and non-technical challenges based on the IoT environment and devices. In this paper, a succinct identification of issues and key challenges in IoT digital forensics design will be discovered. Also, this research paper focuses on the broad spectrum of challenges that are blockage in the provision of IoT forensics. Secondly, this study discusses the importance of digital forensics and -specific research domains that would help to improve digital forensic processes and make them more effective for IoT scenarios.