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A Forensic-Ready Intelligent Transportation System

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The Intelligent transportation system (ITS) is a part of a smart city, and will for sure become a reality in the coming decades if not years. Viewed as a pivotal element in an economy, its market size is predicted to grow and governments are already investing in either development or deployment and maintenance. Researchers on the other hand have already investigated its feasibility and provided multiple architectures. Even if the predicted economic venues are interesting, several challenges related to security, privacy, resiliency are still concerning. New attack surfaces are emerging, incidents and cyber attacks are occurring. The omni-connectivity attribute of smart cities is inducing new risks where a digital vulnerability may be exploited to damage physical assets or endanger travellers’ safety. If safety is a necessity, the preparedness to conduct a digital forensic investigation is also important. This paper focuses on the ITS Digital Forensic Readiness (DFR). More precisely, we aim to align the Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT) with the digital forensics readiness best practices in particular the ISO/IEC 27043:2015 standard.

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    Abdellah Akilal

  2. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Akilal, A., Kechadi, MT. (2022). A Forensic-Ready Intelligent Transportation System. In: Paiva, S., et al. Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. SmartCity 360 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06371-8_39

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