CustodyBlock: A Distributed Chain of Custody Evidence Framework

Alruwaili, Fahad F.

doi:10.3390/info12020088

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“…The authors in [39] proposed a practical and secure CustodyBlock (CB) model, which employs a private blockchain protocol and smart contracts. This model is designed to facilitate the management, transfer, analysis, and monitoring of evidence in a reliable manner.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Evidence Preservation Forensics Model Using Blockchain and Stenography Techniques

AlKhanafseh,

Surakhi

2024

Preprint

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The adoption of technology and digital tools across various user groups has brought about a heightened risk of cyber-attacks targeting devices and shared data. These elevated levels of cybercrime necessitate thorough investigations to address victims’ inquiries about the nature, causes, affected data, and impacted resources of the attack. Digital forensics serves as a crucial means to answer these queries. Additionally, it enables the formulation of strategies and delineation of roles essential for fortifying future defenses against such attacks. Within digital forensics, digital evidence holds pivotal importance in the investigative process as it serves as a cornerstone in legal proceedings to identify perpetrators. Numerous research endeavors focus on devising solutions to safeguard evidence, including centralized storage centers or cloud computing. These efforts aim to create frameworks integrating diverse security levels for sharing and preserving evidence effectively. In this paper, a new framework is proposed that seeks to amalgamate novel technologies with forensic practices to address challenges in the preservation phase of digital forensics. Strategies include segmenting evidence into smaller components, leveraging steganography to support preservation, and employing blockchain technology to ensure the integrity of collected evidence.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Evidence Preservation Forensics Model Using Blockchain and Stenography Techniques

AlKhanafseh,

Surakhi

2024

Preprint

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“…Digital forensics involves identifying, extracting, and analysing digital evidence from electronic devices and systems for legal or investigative purposes [47]. It plays a critical role in law enforcement and cybersecurity, allowing organisations to identify and prosecute cybercriminals and protect against security threats [11].…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of a Blockchain-Based Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence

Onyeashie,

Leimich,

McKeown

et al. 2024

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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The effective management of digital evidence is critical to modern forensic investigations. However, traditional evidence management approaches are often prone to security and integrity issues. In recent years, the use of blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the security, transparency, and integrity of digital evidence. This systematic review critically evaluates the current state of research on blockchain-based chain of custody for digital evidence and its potential to transform the digital forensic community. By analysing papers from major databases, this study provides a bibliometric analysis of the research trends and opportunities for blockchain-based evidence management since 2015. The review highlights the benefits of blockchain technology in providing an immutable and decentralised structure for documenting and auditing evidence trails. Additionally, this research identifies the challenges and limitations of implementing a blockchain-based chain of custody and presents practical and scalable solutions for overcoming these challenges at Big Data scale.

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“…This formalization using Description Logic provides a mathematical foundation for the ontology and enables the application of automated reasoning tools for ontology verification and query answering. Thus, the transition from tabular representations to Description Logic enhances the ontology's operational effectiveness and semantic clarity [132][133][134][135].…”

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Interoperability-Enhanced Knowledge Management in Law Enforcement: An Integrated Data-Driven Forensic Ontological Approach to Crime Scene Analysis

Spyropoulos,

Bratsas,

Makris

et al. 2023

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Nowadays, more and more sciences are involved in strengthening the work of law enforcement authorities. Scientific documentation is evidence highly respected by the courts in administering justice. As the involvement of science in solving crimes increases, so does human subjectivism, which often leads to wrong conclusions and, consequently, to bad judgments. From the above arises the need to create a single information system that will be fed with scientific evidence such as fingerprints, genetic material, digital data, forensic photographs, information from the forensic report, etc., and also investigative data such as information from witnesses’ statements, the apology of the accused, etc., from various crime scenes that will be able, through formal reasoning procedure, to conclude possible perpetrators. The present study examines a proposal for developing an information system that can be a basis for creating a forensic ontology—a semantic representation of the crime scene—through descriptive logic in the owl semantic language. The Interoperability-Enhanced information system to be developed could assist law enforcement authorities in solving crimes. At the same time, it would promote closer cooperation between academia, civil society, and state institutions by fostering a culture of engagement for the common good.

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CustodyBlock: A Distributed Chain of Custody Evidence Framework

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

A New Evidence Preservation Forensics Model Using Blockchain and Stenography Techniques

A New Evidence Preservation Forensics Model Using Blockchain and Stenography Techniques

A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of a Blockchain-Based Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence

Interoperability-Enhanced Knowledge Management in Law Enforcement: An Integrated Data-Driven Forensic Ontological Approach to Crime Scene Analysis

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