The automotive industry is one of the leading industries in the world, topping 2.6 trillion dollars in annual sales. Over the past several years, automotive manufactures have been slowly adding advanced technology to seamlessly and safely integrate access to our digital lives from within our vehicles. The industry is evolving from making vehicles that simply take us from one destination to another, to vehicles that create an experience that entertains and informs us as well as facilitates voice and data communications while we travel. Vehicle Infotainment and Telematics systems store a vast amount of data such as recent destinations, favorite locations, call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, emails, pictures, videos, social media feeds, and the navigation history of everywhere the vehicle has been. Many systems record events such as when and where a vehicle’s lights are turned on, which doors are opened and closed at specific locations, and even where the vehicle is when Bluetooth devices connect. This information is not easily retrievable and is typically stored in several different systems within a vehicle not traditionally associated with event data. This presentation will address the data stored in several different infotainment and telematics systems and touch on methods to acquire and analyze it.
Courtney Lancaster, a Digital Forensics Subject Matter expert, spends her time working to grow and educate the Cyber Security community. Courtney currently is the Director of Training at Berla Corporation and has spent the last several years of her career focusing on Cyber Security Training delivery and curriculum development. Courtney also has a passion for mentoring women in Cyber Security. Courtney’s career began in the United States Navy in 2000 as a Cryptologic Technician. Additionally, she has worked at the National Security Agency conducting a multitude of assessments, and the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) at the Department of Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory (DCFL).