A Tiered Blockchain Framework for Vehicular Forensics

Block4Forensic: An Integrated Lightweight Blockchain Framework for Forensics Applications of Connected Vehicles

Today’s vehicles are becoming cyber-physical systems that do not only communicate with other vehicles but also gather various information from hundreds of sensors within them. These developments help create smart and connected (e.g., self-driving) vehicles that will introduce significant information to drivers, manufactures, insurance companies and maintenance service providers for various appl...

A Framework for Blockchain-Based Applications

Blockchains have recently generated explosive interest from both academia and industry, with many proposed applications. But descriptions of many these proposals are more visionary projections than realizable proposals, and even basic definitions are often missing. We define “blockchain” and “blockchain network”, and then discuss two very different, well known classes of blockchain networks: cr...

A Security Forensics framework

With increasing use of IT infrastructure for crime, digital forensics has become important for law enforcement. Integration of digital evidence from several sources is important for improving the quality of data available for forensic analysis. As a first step in this direction, we evaluate the possibility of integrating host forensics and network forensics on a periodic basis rather than durin...

A Generic Framework for Network Forensics

Internet is the most powerful medium as on date, facilitating varied services to numerous users. It has also become the environment for cyber warfare where attacks of many types (financial, ideological, revenge) are being launched. The e-commerce transactions being carried out online are of major interest to cybercriminals. The Internet needs to be protected from these attacks and an appropriat...

A Control Framework for Digital Forensics