Forensic Analysis of digital evidence extracted from Amazon Echo

The IoT ecosystem is encompassing new devices at a constant rate. And now there are around twenty billion of these devices on the planet. One category of IoT devices, known as Home Assistants, find themselves being used in a lot of households. Amazon Echo, being the most popular device in this category also has a great potential for storing valuable evidence when a crime occurs. The biggest problem lies in retrieval of this evidence. This article deeply compares and contrasts the methodologies and findings from three major works entirely focused on forensics of Amazon Echo and tries to find out the evidentiary value of data retrieved and how this could prove relevant for a crime investigation We also make our own contribution by explaining the significance of timestamps.