Pushing Network Forensic Readiness to the Edge: A Resource Constrained Artificial Intelligence Based Methodology

Authors: Rizvi, Syed; Scanlon, Mark; McGibney, Jimmy and Sheppard, John

Publication Date: November 2024

Publication Name: 2024 Cyber Research Conference - Ireland (Cyber-RCI),

Abstract:

Rapid developments in recent years with the Internet of Things (IoT) have supported significant growth in edge computing. The growing number and diversity of IoT/edge devices increase the risk of security incidents. As many IoT/edge devices can be considered lightweight, with limited data processing capacity and significant heterogeneity, traditional digital forensic investigation techniques may not always work with them. Network forensic readiness on IoT/edge devices is a proactive approach to collecting evidence to assist with forensic examinations. This paper introduces the Network Forensic Readiness for Edge Devices (NetFoREdge) framework, focussing on deploying lightweight AI models in resource-constrained environments for attack detection, evidence collection, and preservation. The proposed lightweight AI-driven solution performed effectively on resource-constrained physical devices, namely a Raspberry Pi 3B and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, experiments have been conducted using two datasets: the recently released IoT network attack dataset, CICIoT2023, and the IoT-23 dataset. The experimental results are very encouraging -- achieving an accuracy rate exceeding 99.60% and 99.98% for multiclassification on CICIoT2023 and IoT-23 datasets, respectively, and demonstrating the feasibility of network forensic readiness on IoT/edge devices with limited memory, storage, CPU usage, and power consumption.

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@inproceedings{imhof2024PasswordCrackingGPT,
author={Rizvi, Syed and Scanlon, Mark and McGibney, Jimmy and Sheppard, John},
title="{Pushing Network Forensic Readiness to the Edge: A Resource Constrained Artificial Intelligence Based Methodology}",
booktitle={2024 Cyber Research Conference - Ireland (Cyber-RCI)},
year=2024,
pages = {},
month=11,
publisher={IEEE},
abstract={Rapid developments in recent years with the Internet of Things (IoT) have supported significant growth in edge computing. The growing number and diversity of IoT/edge devices increase the risk of security incidents. As many IoT/edge devices can be considered lightweight, with limited data processing capacity and significant heterogeneity, traditional digital forensic investigation techniques may not always work with them. Network forensic readiness on IoT/edge devices is a proactive approach to collecting evidence to assist with forensic examinations. This paper introduces the Network Forensic Readiness for Edge Devices (NetFoREdge) framework, focussing on deploying lightweight AI models in resource-constrained environments for attack detection, evidence collection, and preservation. The proposed lightweight AI-driven solution performed effectively on resource-constrained physical devices, namely a Raspberry Pi 3B and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, experiments have been conducted using two datasets: the recently released IoT network attack dataset, CICIoT2023, and the IoT-23 dataset. The experimental results are very encouraging -- achieving an accuracy rate exceeding 99.60% and 99.98% for multiclassification on CICIoT2023 and IoT-23 datasets, respectively, and demonstrating the feasibility of network forensic readiness on IoT/edge devices with limited memory, storage, CPU usage, and power consumption.}
}