Towards automated SCADA forensic investigation: challenges, opportunities and promising paradigms
by Mohamed Elhoseny; Hosny Abbas
International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), Vol. 13, No. 3/4, 2020

Abstract: Modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks represent a challenging domain for forensic investigators who have the responsibility to determine the main causes of the catastrophic incidents that could happen in SCADA systems and to provide precise and logical evidences supported with comprehensive technical reports to the legal organisations. They are characterised to be complex, large-scale, and highly distributed systems comprising diversities of proprietary components such as field devices, embedded control systems, computers, communication networks, etc. Providing forensic investigators with fully or partially automated forensic investigation can be an effective solution against the challenging nature of modern SCADA networks. This review paper discusses the challenges and opportunities towards achieving that goal and highlights the emerging technological paradigms that can be considered as promising in the realisation of such a framework. Finally, this paper proposes a conceptual framework for automated forensic investigation in modern SCADA networks accompanied with a possible realisation architecture based on the multi-agent systems and wireless sensor networks promising technological paradigms.

Online publication date: Thu, 10-Sep-2020

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