LEIA: The Live Evidence Information Aggregator: Towards efficient cyber-law enforcement

Given the complexity and velocity of the interactions among vastly heterogeneous elements on the Internet; the colossal amounts of information generated and exchanged, coupled with the increasingly evasive nature of new forms of electronic crimes, as well as the relative immaturity of current Digital Forensics tools, Law Enforcement Agencies are easily outpaced and overwhelmed with the types of electronic crimes experienced today. In this paper, we describe the architecture of a comprehensive automated Digital Investigation platform termed as the Live Evidence Information Aggregator (LEIA). It makes use of the strong points of hypervisor technologies, large scale distributed file systems, the resource description framework (RDF), peer-to-peer networks, and innovative collaborative mechanisms in order to introduce a level of speed, accuracy and efficiency to match up with the imminent age of massively distributed cybercrime in the context of Internet of Things.