Cloud Computing Forensics

2015 ◽  
pp. 323-331
Author(s):  
Mario A. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Malicious Activity ◽  
Cloud Application ◽  
Chain Of Custody ◽  
A Chain ◽  
A Company

As computer technology evolved over the last 30 years, so did the opportunity to use computers to break the law. Out of necessity, digital forensics was birthed. Computer forensics is the practice of extracting information from the digital media in order to prosecute the individuals that carried out the crime. Forensic challenges presented by cloud computing are vast and complex. If a company becomes the target of a digital criminal investigation and they are using cloud computing, some unique challenges are faced by a digital forensics examiner. The data in the cloud only represents a “snapshot” of when it was sent to the cloud. Establishing a chain of custody for the data would become difficult or impossible if its integrity and authenticity cannot be fully determined. There are also potential forensic issues when the customer or user exits a cloud application. Items subject to forensic analysis, such as registry entries, temporary files, and other artifacts are lost, making malicious activity difficult to prove. The challenges of applying forensics to a cloud environment are tied to cloud security. This chapter discusses securing a cloud environment and how that would help with the forensic analysis.

Cloud Computing Forensics

2014 ◽  
pp. 170-178
Author(s):  
Mario A. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Malicious Activity ◽  
Cloud Application ◽  
Chain Of Custody ◽  
A Chain ◽  
A Company

As computer technology evolved over the last 30 years, so did the opportunity to use computers to break the law. Out of necessity, digital forensics was birthed. Computer forensics is the practice of extracting information from the digital media in order to prosecute the individuals that carried out the crime. Forensic challenges presented by cloud computing are vast and complex. If a company becomes the target of a digital criminal investigation and they are using cloud computing, some unique challenges are faced by a digital forensics examiner. The data in the cloud only represents a “snapshot” of when it was sent to the cloud. Establishing a chain of custody for the data would become difficult or impossible if its integrity and authenticity cannot be fully determined. There are also potential forensic issues when the customer or user exits a cloud application. Items subject to forensic analysis, such as registry entries, temporary files, and other artifacts are lost, making malicious activity difficult to prove. The challenges of applying forensics to a cloud environment are tied to cloud security. This chapter discusses securing a cloud environment and how that would help with the forensic analysis.

A Survey of Cloud Computing Challenges from a Digital Forensics Perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 1221-1236
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Carlton ◽  
Hill Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
System Components ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Computer Forensic ◽  
Associated Data

Computing and communication technologies have merged to produce an environment where many applications and their associated data reside in remote locations, often unknown to the users. The adoption of cloud computing promises many benefits to users and service providers, as it shifts users’ concerns away from the physical location of system components and toward the accessibility of the system’s services. While this adoption of cloud computing may be beneficial to users and service providers, it increases areas of concern for computer forensic examiners that need to obtain data from cloud computing environments for evidence in legal matters. The authors present an overview of cloud computing, discuss the challenges it raises from a digital forensics perspective, describe suitable tools for forensic analysis of cloud computing environments, and consider the future of cloud computing.

A Survey of Cloud Computing Challenges from a Digital Forensics Perspective

2013 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Carlton ◽  
Hill Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
System Components ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Computer Forensic ◽  
Associated Data

Computing and communication technologies have merged to produce an environment where many applications and their associated data reside in remote locations, often unknown to the users. The adoption of cloud computing promises many benefits to users and service providers, as it shifts users’ concerns away from the physical location of system components and toward the accessibility of the system’s services. While this adoption of cloud computing may be beneficial to users and service providers, it increases areas of concern for computer forensic examiners that need to obtain data from cloud computing environments for evidence in legal matters. The authors present an overview of cloud computing, discuss the challenges it raises from a digital forensics perspective, describe suitable tools for forensic analysis of cloud computing environments, and consider the future of cloud computing.

scholarly journals THE INTEGRATION OF DIGITAL FORENSICS SCIENCE AND ISLAMIC EVIDENCE LAWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Mohamad Khairudin Kallil ◽  
Ahmad Che Yaacob
Keyword(s):  
Operating Procedure ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Digital Evidence ◽  
Standard Requirement ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Chain Of Custody ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
A Chain

Evidence is anything that tends to prove or disprove a fact at issue in legal action. It involves the offering of alleged proof through testimony or objects at court proceedings to persuade the trier of fact about an issue in dispute. Islamic Evidence Law is a body of rules that helps to govern conduct and determines what will admissible in certain legal proceedings and trials. In the proceeding that involves digital evidence, the court will consider whether the digital evidence is admissible or inadmissible depends on the requirements of admissibility stated in law statutes in force and the existence of any Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). Under section 33 of the Syariah Court (Federal Territories) Evidence Act or other Syariah Evidence Enactments, digital evidence is subjected to be authenticated by the digital forensics experts. In digital forensics, the process of identification, preservation, collection, analysis, and presentation is the main procedures contained in any Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of any digital forensics services. The court will ensure that this procedure can maintain the authenticity and the originality of the evidence especially on the issue of expert qualification, a chain of custody and analysis part. Thus, digital forensics is integrated with the Islamic law of evidence to maintain justice in delivering judgment. Therefore, this article examines the standard requirement of the admissibility of digital evidence by digital forensic methodology by using the qualitative approach on the analysis of articles, books, law statutes documents and law cases. The results show that the need for amendment of Syariah Court Evidence and Procedure statutes and the necessity of the existence of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on digital evidence in the Syariah courts as a guideline for judges, lawyers and parties involved.

A Survey of Cloud Computing Challenges from a Digital Forensics Perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Carlton ◽  
Hill Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
System Components ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Computer Forensic

Computing and communication technologies have merged to produce an environment where many applications and their associated data reside in remote locations, often unknown to the users. The adoption of cloud computing promises many benefits to users and service providers, as it shifts users’ concerns away from the physical location of system components and toward the accessibility of the system’s services. While this adoption of cloud computing may be beneficial to users and service providers, it increases areas of concern for computer forensic examiners that need to obtain data from cloud computing environments for evidence in legal matters. The authors present an overview of cloud computing, discuss the challenges it raises from a digital forensics perspective, describe suitable tools for forensic analysis of cloud computing environments, and consider the future of cloud computing.

scholarly journals Cloud Forensics : Isolating Cloud Instance

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Mariam J. AlKandari ◽  
Huda F. Al Rasheedi ◽  
Ayed A. Salman
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
File System ◽  
File Systems ◽  
Distributed File System ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Apache Hadoop ◽  
Cloud Forensics ◽  
Hadoop Distributed File System ◽  
Do So

Abstract—Cloud computing has been the trending model for storing, accessing and modifying the data over the Internet in the recent years. Rising use of the cloud has generated a new concept related to the cloud which is cloud forensics. Cloud forensics can be defined as investigating for evidence over the cloud, so it can be viewed as a combination of both cloud computing and digital forensics. Many issues of applying forensics in the cloud have been addressed. Isolating the location of the incident has become an essential part of forensic process. This is done to ensure that evidence will not be modified or changed.  Isolating an instant in the cloud computing has become even more challenging, due to the nature of the cloud environment. In the cloud, the same storage or virtual machine have been used by many users. Hence, the evidence is most likely will be overwritten and lost. The proposed solution in this paper is to isolate a cloud instance. This can be achieved by marking the instant that reside in the servers as "Under Investigation". To do so, cloud file system must be studied. One of the well-known file systems used in the cloud is Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Thus, in this paper the methodology used for isolating a cloud instance would be based on the HDFS architecture. Keywords: cloud computing; digital forensics; cloud forensics

scholarly journals Analysis on digital forensics challenges and anti-forensics techniques in cloud computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Vadlamudi ◽  
Dr K. Thirupathi Rao ◽  
Pellakuri Vidyullatha ◽  
B AjasekharReddy
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Forensic Investigation ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Investigation Process

In the modern life, there is a rapid increase in the usage of the technology. One reason of increasing the technology is usage of cloud. The mobile devices or any other technological devices mainly depend on cloud. The cloud can be accessible from anywhere. Cloud forensic process had introduced to help the investigators to find the evidence when the criminal attacks the cloud and to maintain the integrity and security for the data stored in the cloud. The increasing in the criminal attacks in cloud, made the investigators to find the latest methods for the forensic investigation process. Similarly in the same way the criminals also discover new ways to hide the source of evidences. This causes damage to the investigation process and is called anti-forensics. To hide the sources anti-forensic techniques are used and research must be done against the anti-forensics techniques in cloud environment. In this paper we focused mainly on detailed study on various challenges in cloud forensic and anti-forensic techniques. 

scholarly journals A Conceptual Paper on Multi-Scale Applications in Cloud Environment with Reference to Variety of Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1229-1235
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Cloud Application ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research

Developments in Cloud Computing has opened up new avenues for cutting – edge technology applications. It is the conventional technology that deploys the applications and services on internet servers instead of traditional servers. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) allows access to a variety of applications on the cloud commonly known as Multi-scale applications. Social and Professional media like Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, ResearchGate etc. have migrated to cloud. The terms scale and scalability in cloud environment has been used in different contexts. The applications can be scaled up or down based on the network traffic scenario, and has thus opened up a Pandora’s Box in new research and development of multi–scale cloud based applications. This conceptual paper attempts to review literature across various domains where the term multi-scale, scaling, cloud based application have been used and arrive at a reasonable, crisp, concise yet accurate definition of the term multi – scale and multi–scale cloud application. The term “Multi – Scale” is used in various fields referring to multiple scales applied to arrive at solutions to spatio-temporal problems. This conceptual paper attempts to associate a formal definition to the term “multi-scale cloud application” in the cloud computing world. The proposed definition of the said term is extremely relevant in the context of multi–scale applications developed in recent times.

scholarly journals An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Cloud-API-Based Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Yara Abuzrieq ◽  
Amro Al-Said Ahmad ◽  
Maram Bani Younes
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Experimental Performance ◽  
Cloud Application ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Early Testing ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Programming Interfaces

Cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been developed to link several cloud computing applications together. API-based applications are widely used to provide flexible and reliable services over cloud platforms. Recently, a huge number of services have been attached to cloud platforms and widely utilized during a very short period of time. This is due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, which forced several businesses to switch to online services instantly. Several cloud platforms have failed to support adequate services, especially for extended and real-time-based applications. Early testing of the available platforms guarantees a level of suitability and reliability for the uploaded services. In this work, we first selected two different API-based applications from education and professional taxonomies, the two most recently used applications that have switched to the cloud environment. Then, we aimed to evaluate the performance of different API-based applications under different cloud platforms, in order to measure and validate the ability of these platforms to support these services. The advantages and drawbacks of each platform were experimentally investigated for each application.

A Review on Load Balancing Model Using Best Partition Technique

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
M. Chaitanya ◽  
K. Durga Charan
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Load Balance ◽  
Large Impact ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Public Cloud ◽  
The Public ◽  
Partition Technique ◽  
Textual Content

Load balancing makes cloud computing greater knowledgeable and could increase client pleasure. At reward cloud computing is among the all most systems which offer garage of expertise in very lowers charge and available all the time over the net. However, it has extra vital hassle like security, load administration and fault tolerance. Load balancing inside the cloud computing surroundings has a large impact at the presentation. The set of regulations relates the sport idea to the load balancing manner to amplify the abilties in the public cloud environment. This textual content pronounces an extended load balance mannequin for the majority cloud concentrated on the cloud segregating proposal with a swap mechanism to select specific strategies for great occasions.

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