Network Forensics in a BYOD Environment

Abstract

The use of mobile devices in digital network environments are the main drivers of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept. As such, the need to monitor the exchange of data between mobile devices connected to a network to improve network security becomes paramount. Therefore, network administrators can use network forensics to monitor data packet exchange and enable easy collection of digital evidence in their network. This paper looks at how to perform Network forensics on mobile devices, open challenges and propose recommendations to challenges in network forensics. Guided by a qualitative review of existing literature, a scoping review of network forensics is provided, leading to the proposed generic approach for BYOD forensics considering mobile devices. From our review, it was apparent that, more scientific research needs to be done towards availing novel solutions towards BYOD network challenges. The recommendations from this paper are that organisations could try to implement honeypots technology, cryptographic blockchain methods and sound BYOD Management techniques and approaches.