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Mobile devices and virtualized appliances in the Internet of Things can be end nodes on varying networks owned by different parties over time, while still seamlessly participating in licit or illicit activities. Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) tools today struggle to perform digital investigations in such loosely controlled networked environments as they face several challenges including: scarcity of resources, availability, trust, privacy, data volumes, velocity and variety. In this paper we analyze the state of research in DFIR in networked environments, identifying the challenges facing DFIR tools particularly in loosely controlled network environments. We present the requirements for a system to address these challenges at the various steps of the typical digital investigation methodology. From this we identify the need for support from Peer to Peer (P2P) overlays and discuss their relative merits and drawbacks in order to identify those that would best support DFIR in loosely controlled networked environments. Finally we incorporate both structured and unstructured P2P overlays in various capacities in our architecture in order to organize devices in loosely controlled networks, using context information, thus enabling efficient capture, analysis and reporting of artifacts of use in digital investigations.

The advance of computer, network, and Internet technology enables the control systems to process the massive data in the distributed computing environments. To implement and maintain the software in distributed environment, the component-based methodology is widely used. This paper proposes the middleware architecture for the distributed computer control system. With the proposed middleware services, it is relatively easy to maintain compatibility between products and to implement a portable control application. To achieve the compatibility between heterogeneous systems, the proposed architecture provides the communication protocols based on the XML with lightweight event-based service.

4차 산업 혁명 관련 신흥 기술로 주목받고 있는 분산원장기술은 오픈소스 기반 분산원장기술 시스템(또는 분산원장기술 플랫폼)으로 구현되어 다양한 애플리케이션(또는 서비스) 개발 시 널리 활용되고 있으나, 오픈소스 기반 분산원장기술 시스템에서 제공하는 보안 기능은 매우 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 오픈소스 기반 분산원장기술 시스템 운용 시 발생할 수 있는 잠재적인 보안 위협을 식별하고, 국내 법규 및 보안 인증 기준(ISMS-P, Information Security Management System-Privacy)을 분석하여 보안 위협에 대응할 수 있는 보안기능 요구사항을 도출한다. 그리고 국제 표준인 공통평가기준(CC, Common Criteria)의 보안기능 컴포넌트 분석을 통하여 오픈소스 기반 분산원장기술 시스템에 필요한 보안 기능을 구현할 수 있는 방안을 제안함으로서 보안을 강화하고자 한다.

Distributed ledger technology, which is attracting attention as an emerging technology related to the 4th Industrial Revolution, is implemented as an open source based distributed ledger technology system and widely used for development with various applications (or services), but the security functions provided by the distributed general ledger system are very insufficient. This paper proposes security enhancements for distributed ledger technology systems based on open source. To do so, potential security threats that may occur under running an open source based distributed ledger technology systems are identified and security functional requirements against the security threats identified are provided by analyzing legislation and security certification criteria (ISMS-P). In addition, it proposes a method to implement the security functions required for an open source based distributed ledger technology systems through analysis of security functional components of Common Criteria (CC), an international standard.