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.

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.

IT Security and Governance Compliant Service Oriented Computing in Cloud Computing Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
Hussain Al-Aqrabi ◽  
Lu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Cloud Computing Service ◽  
High Elasticity ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Simulation Results

The authors present the key security challenges and solutions on the Cloud with the help of literature reviews and an experimental model created on OPNET that is simulated to produce useful statistics to establish the approach that the Cloud computing service providers should take to provide optimal security and compliance. The literature recommends the concept of unified threat management for ensuring secured services on the Cloud. Through the simulation results, the authors demonstrate that UTM may not be a feasible approach to security implementation as it may become a bottleneck for the application Clouds. The fundamental benefits of Cloud computing (resources on demand and high elasticity) may be diluted if UTMs do not scale up effectively as per the traffic loads on the application Clouds. Moreover, it is not feasible for application Clouds to absorb the performance degradation for security and compliance because UTM will not be a total solution for security and compliance. Applications also share the vulnerabilities just like the systems, which will be out of UTM Cloud’s control.

On the Use of System-Level Benchmarks for Comparing Public Cloud Environments

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
Sanjay P. Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
System Level ◽  
Public Cloud ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Levels Of Service

The proliferation of public cloud providers and services offered necessitate that end users have benchmarking-related information that help compare the properties of the cloud computing environment being provided. System-level benchmarks are used to measure the performance of overall system or subsystem. This chapter surveys the system-level benchmarks that are used for traditional computing environments that can also be used to compare cloud computing environments. Amazon's EC2 Service is one of the leading public cloud service providers and offers many different levels of service. The research in this chapter focuses on system-level benchmarks and looks into evaluating the memory, CPU, and I/O performance of two different tiers of hardware offered through Amazon's EC2. Using three distinct types of system benchmarks, the performance of the micro spot instance and the M1 small instance are measured and compared. In order to examine the performance and scalability of the hardware, the virtual machines are set up in a cluster formation ranging from two to eight nodes.

Examining Communication Technologies of IoT for Best QoS

2018 ◽  
pp. 264-276
Author(s):  
Jayashree K ◽  
Babu R ◽  
Chithambaramani R
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Excessive Number ◽  
The Web

The Internet of Things (IoT) architecture has gained an increased amount of attention from academia as well as the industry sector as a significant methodology for the development of innovative applications and systems. Currently, the merging of this architecture with that of Cloud computing has been largely motivated by the need for various applications and infrastructures in IoT. In addition to this, the Cloud ascends as an eminent solution that would help solve various challenges that are faced by the IoT standard when varied physical devices. There are an excessive number of Cloud service providers the web along with many other services. Thus, it becomes critical to choose the provider who can be efficient, consistent, and suitable, and who can deliver the best Quality of Service (QoS). Thus, this chapter discusses QoS for cloud computing and IoT.

scholarly journals Forensic Analysis of Social Media Apps

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2302-2305
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Forensic Implications

Social networks in any form, specifically online social networks (OSNs), are becoming a part of our everyday life in this new kind of millennium especially with the advanced and simple communication technologies through easily accessible devices such as smartphones and laptops and desktops. The data generated through the use of these technologies need to be analyzed for forensic purposes when criminal and terrorist activities are involved. And is useful to analyze and come to an understanding about their further intentions. In order to deal with the forensic implications of social networks, current research on both digital forensics and social networks need to be incorporated and understood. In this paper we are conducting forensic analysis on different networking sites such as Twitter, Skype, and WhatsApp on famous search engine called Firefox.

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.

Research on Forensics Method Based on Log on SaaS

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 4432-4436
Author(s):  
Gang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Cloud computing is getting more and more attention from the information and communication technologies industry recently, security issues is becoming more important. Forensics technology on cloud computing is becoming a researched focus. In this paper, we discuss the impact and challenges to digital forensics, finally we present the improved measure of log and forensics system based on logs on SaaS.

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