IoT Forensics or IoT Forensic Science, a branch of digital forensics, that deals with the use of any digital forensics processes and procedures relating to the recovery of digital evidence which originates from one or more IoT devices for the purpose of preservation, identification, extraction or documentation of digital evidence with the intention of reconstructing IoT-related events. These events may reside across one or more configurable computing resources that are within close proximity to the location where the event has taken place (e.g., edge gateway).
IoT forensics aims to extend that of digital forensics with key focus on reconstructing events involving IoT devices for obtaining a digital or electronic evidence.
A key goal of IoT forensics is to identify and extract digital information from devices belonging to the Internet of things field, using a forensically sound and legally acceptable process.