JUSTITIA
JUSTITIA: Forensic Digital Twins for Judicial-Grade Cybercrime Reconstruction and Cross-Border Evidence Integrity
- Forensic digital twin
- IoT digital forensics
- Chain of custody
- Legal admissibility
- Cross-border evidence exchange
JUSTITIA addresses the persistent gap between fragmented digital traces and court-ready narratives by transforming heterogeneous artefacts into coherent, lawful, and explainable reconstructions that security practitioners and judicial actors can trust, share, and admit across borders. It delivers a Forensic Digital Twin & Replay Engine that reconstructs multi-stage incidents end-to-end from logs, disk and memory images, network captures, cloud/edge telemetry, and mobile/IoT artefacts; a provenance and chain-of-custody fabric that cryptographically signs, timestamps, and cleanly separates originals from simulations; and an automated legal admissibility and compliance layer that encodes EU and national rules to flag procedural gaps and support disclosure throughout the workflow. Cross-border interoperability is built-in via adapters and export templates aligned with eEDES/e-CODEX and SIRIUS guidance, with consent, necessity, and proportionality documented to uphold fundamental rights. Beyond static review, the microservice/Kubernetes- and SDN-orchestrated architecture enables full-system reenactment and interactive analysis in safe, virtualised environments that mirror the originals, producing courtroom-ready timelines, causality graphs, and integrity bundles that courts can verify offline. Validation focuses on tool and method verification through minimum practices, reference datasets, and repeatable test harnesses, while practitioner-centred UX and plain-language rationales raise evidentiary clarity for investigators, prosecutors, and judges. A portfolio of pilots (e.g., healthcare ransomware, edge-to-cloud vehicle forensics, smart-home crime scenes, and a federated cross-border mock-trial) exercises dynamic replay, custody, admissibility, and evidence exchange under realistic constraints to generate measurable improvements and accelerate uptake with Europol Innovation Lab and related initiatives.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Grant Agreement ID | 101309214 |
| Funding Organization | European Commission |
| Funding Programme | HORIZON-CL3-2025-01 |
| Topic | HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-01 |
| Total Budget | 2.980.656,25 EUR |
| K3Y Budget | 371.875,00 EUR |
| Link | Project Link in EU Funding & Tenders Portal |