The Workshop on Forensics for IoT and Smart Home (FISH 2025) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, industry experts and agencies to discuss and address the unique challenges in digital forensics for the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart home environments. The adoption of smart home devices has grown exponentially in recent years, seamlessly integrating into our daily lives. These devices collect vast amounts of personal data to automate household tasks, enhance convenience, and optimize home management. As IoT devices continue to proliferate in both personal and industrial spaces, the need for effective forensic methodologies, frameworks, and tools has become more critical than ever. This workshop will serve as a platform for presenting cutting-edge research, novel approaches, and practical case studies in IoT and smart home forensics. The workshop is co-aligend with the conference Informatik Festival 2025 at the University of Potsdam Campus III - Greibnitzsee in Germany, organized by the Gesellschaft für Informatik. More details about the  conference Informatik Festival 2025 are available at https://informatik2025.gi.de.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, anonymous, and not submitted to journals or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. All papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review. Submissions must be written in English, strictly follow the GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) format (with default margins, font size, etc.) and should be at most 10 pages, excluding only references. Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for on-site participation and to present the paper. The proceedings will be published in the GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) series. Accepted papers must follow the LNCS author instructions at: https://gi.de/service/publikationen/lni. 

Authors of accepted papers are required to present their work at FISH25. Therefore, at least one author must register for the FISH25 workshop at the Informatik Festival 2025 conference. The link for registration is available at https://informatik2025.gi.de/registration.html.

List of Topics

The program committee is seeking original papers on all aspects of the forensic methods in the domain of (Industial) IoT and Smart Home. You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to FISH25. The workshop's submission topics include, but are not limited to:

• IoT and smart home forensics methodologies and frameworks
• Incident response and investigation techniques for IoT devices
• Data acquisition and forensic analysis of IoT and smart home devices
• AI and machine learning applications in IoT forensics
• Privacy, security, and forensic challenges in smart home and IoT environments
• Digital evidence handling and chain of custody for smart home and IoT ecosystems
• Case studies and real-world applications of IoT forensics

Committees

Program Committee

• Eggert, Marius - Bundeskriminalamt
• Gergeleit, Martin - Hochschule RheinMain
• Meyer, Conrad - ZITiS
• Pöll, Markus - Digitaler Erkennungsdienst Hessen Nord
• Stöttinger, Marc - Hochschule RheinMain
• Yekta, Ali - Yekta IT
• Zohner, Michael - Hochschule Fulda

Organizing committee

• Gergeleit, Martin - Hochschule RheinMain
• Stöttinger, Marc - Hochschule RheinMain

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to 841rn0g170vdimadru65@hs-rm.de or b79z52v787fo4ax3owtz@hs-rm.de.