Threats and Corrective Measures for IoT Security with Observance of Cybercrime: A Survey

Table 6

Various patents granted in the development of digital forensics.

Patent title	Year		Inventor	Country	Key features
	Filed	Published
Differencing engine for digital forensics	2018	2020	Monsen and Glisson [235]	US	Anomaly detection to mitigate the security attack on cloud-based servers.
Forensic investigation tool	2017	2019	Jon D. McEachron [236]	US	Digital investigation tool capable of recovering and decrypting the content.
Forensic system, forensic methods, and forensic program	2015	2016	Morimoto et al. [237]	US	A medium to acquire and analyze the digital information in a server or a plurality of computers.
Devices and methods for providing security in a remote digital forensic environment	2016	2017	Kang et al. [238]	US	A method for collecting digital evidence from the target system. Analysis of the collected evidence to be done at a remote location.
Method and apparatus for digital forensics	2008	2012	Choi et al. [239]	US	A method to perform digital forensics by extracting page files from the target stored medium. Also, extract features from the extracted page file.
Systems and methods for provisioning digital forensics services remotely over public and private networks	2012	2015	Shannon and Decker [240]	US	A method to collect and analyze electronically stored information over public and private networks using cloud computing.
Digital forensics	2009	2014	Buchanan et al. [241]	US	System call information is acquired from the device under test. The acquired data is converted into a sequence format for further investigation.
Methods for data analysis and digital forensics and systems using the same	2011	2014	Gil et al. [242]	US	It comprises an online data forensic server to acquire and analyze the usage history of a device. It also issues a timestamp to the collected data.
Forensic digital watermarking with variable orientation and protocols	2001	2008	K. Levy [243]	US	A method of forensic digital watermarking on the randomly selected orientation in the content signal.
Secure digital forensics	2007	2011	Carpenter and Westerinen [244]	US	To perform an audit of computer processor status and memory, a security module is designed. This can be done using a separate hardware path to access the processor register data through a debug port.