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4. The Evolution of Expressing and Exchanging Cyber-Investigation Information in a Standardized Form

verfasst von : Eoghan Casey, Sean Barnum, Ryan Griffith, Jonathan Snyder, Harm van Beek, Alex Nelson

Erschienen in: Handling and Exchanging Electronic Evidence Across Europe

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The growing number of investigations involving digital traces from various data sources is driving the demand for a standard way to represent and exchange pertinent information. Enabling automated combination and correlation of cyber-investigation information from multiple systems or organizations enables more efficient and comprehensive analysis, reducing the risk of mistakes and missed opportunities. These needs are being met by the evolving open-source, community-developed specification language called CASE, the Cyber-investigation Analysis Standard Expression. CASE leverages the Unified Cyber Ontology (UCO), which abstracts and expresses concepts that are common across multiple domains. This paper introduces CASE and UCO, explaining how they improve upon prior related work. The value of fully-structured data, representing provenance, and action lifecycles are discussed. The guiding principles of CASE and UCO are presented, and illustrative examples of CASE are provided using the default JSON-LD serialization.

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Fußnoten
1
For more technical details, design decisions, and comprehensive examples, see Casey et al. (2017).
 
3
Linkage blindness is a term coined by a criminologist Steve Egger in the context of serial homicides to describe the failure to recognize a pattern that links one crime to another, such as crimes committed by the same offender in different jurisdictions (Egger, 1984).
 
4
Duck typing allows data to be defined by its inherent characteristics rather than enforcing strict data typing. CASE objects can be assigned any rational combination of property bundles, such as a file that is an image and a thumbnail. When employing this approach, data types are evaluated with the duck test. Simply stated, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Evolution of Expressing and Exchanging Cyber-Investigation Information in a Standardized Form
verfasst von
Eoghan Casey
Sean Barnum
Ryan Griffith
Jonathan Snyder
Harm van Beek
Alex Nelson
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74872-6_4