Cloud Computing Digital Forensic challenges

Neware, Rahul; Khan, Amreen

doi:10.1109/iceca.2018.8474838

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“…Log files, one of the most crucial evidence artefacts in an investigation, must be retrieved, preserved, and maintained securely with their hash values to ensure their integrity. Research in cloud forensics has shown that log files retrieval, preservation, and maintaining the chain of custody are the primary concerns in this field [6,7,15,16].…”

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Using Blockchain to Preserve Chain of Custody: Cloud Forensics Analysis (S)

Grabner,

Ahmed,

Baghaei

2023

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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In the era of cloud computing, the focus of cyber criminals has shifted from traditional IT infrastructures to the cloud. Cyber forensic investigations in the cloud present several challenges due to legal obligations, technical limitations, and the dynamic nature of cloud resources. For instance, access to digital assets is crucial for practical analysis but is often hindered, as investigators may not have complete access to disk images or log files. The mainstream forensic frameworks and solutions for identifying, retrieving, and preserving evidence in the cloud are lacking. Yet, NIST has identified 65 cloud forensics challenges, with 13 related to log files alone. The preservation and integrity of forensic evidence are the backbones of a digital forensic investigation, and the chain of custody proves the authenticity of the evidence. However, cloud environments are not designed to handle digital evidence with integrity, leading to severe issues when presenting evidence in a court of law. This paper delves into the challenges of cloud forensics investigation, focusing on log files, and aims to identify potential solutions and frameworks to support the chain of custody. For that purpose, the authors evaluate the suitability of blockchain technology for maintaining a proper chain of custody of log files in the cloud. A prototype is implemented to serve as a proof of concept.

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Section: Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Using Blockchain to Preserve Chain of Custody: Cloud Forensics Analysis (S)

Grabner,

Ahmed,

Baghaei

2023

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Even though the cloud model is composed of essential characteristics such as on-demand self-service, where a customer can unilaterally access computing capabilities, including server time and network storage without needing human interaction, Services such as measured service, resource pooling, broad network access, and rapid elasticity are other essential characteristics that the cloud model offers that constitute challenges to digital forensics in different domains. There are several issues and challenges that digital forensics is faced with, including technical [12], legal [13], and resource [14].…”

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Digital Forensics Challenges in Cyberspace: Overcoming Legitimacy and Privacy Issues Through Modularisation

Moses Ashawa,

Ali Mansour,

Jackie Riley

et al. 2023

Cloud Computing and Data Science

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The significance of the cloud environment is growing in the current digital world. It provides several advantages, such as reduced expenses, the ability to adjust to different needs, adaptability and enhanced cooperation. The field of digital forensic investigations has encountered substantial difficulties in reconciling the requirement for efficient data analysis with the increasing apprehensions regarding privacy in recent times. As investigators analyse digital evidence to unearth crucial information, they must also traverse an intricate network of privacy rules and regulations. Given the increasing prevalence of remote work and the necessity for businesses to be adaptable and quick to react to shifting market circumstances, the cloud infrastructure has become a crucial asset for organisations of various scales. Although the cloud offers benefits such as scalability, flexibility and enhanced collaboration, it presents difficulties in digital forensic investigations regarding data protection, ownership and jurisdictional boundaries. These concerns are becoming increasingly significant as more data is kept in the cloud. In this paper, we present three major challenges that are faced during cloud-based forensics investigation. We analyse the extent to which different data formats increase complexity in forensics investigations in cyberspace. This paper analyses three core challenges facing digital forensics in the cloud environment: legitimacy, complexity and an increase in data volume, looking at the implications these have on data liable for legal issues in court. These challenges contribute to the backlog in digital forensics investigations due to a lack of modularisation of the procedures. To address these concerns, modularisation model is proposed to offer a way to integrate traditional processing functions while ensuring strict adherence to privacy protocols. To overcome these challenges, we propose modularisation as a strategy for improving the future of digital forensic research's operational efficiency, overcoming the identified challenges faced during cloud-based investigations and demonstrating how organisations can mitigate potential risks associated with storing sensitive information in the cloud.

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“…Owing to the combination of mobile computing and cloud computing and use of wireless communication, we face many challenges in mobile cloud computing, such as limited resources for mobile devices, stability challenge occurring due to limitation of wireless network, cost of network access going high various times in mobile cloud computing, elasticity challenge, security and privacy challenge, bandwidth of channel, energy efficiency, quality of service etc. [13] [41].…”

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Survey on Security issues in Mobile Cloud Computing and Prevention Measures

Neware¹

2019

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Mobile Cloud Computing(MCC) is a recent technology used by various users worldwide. In 2015, more than 240 million users used mobile cloud computing which gives a profit of $5.2 billion to service providers. MCC is a combination of Mobile computing and cloud computing. By the combination of these two, it gives various challenges like network access, elasticity, management, availability, security, privacy, etc. Here security issues are considered because both the security issues of mobile computing and cloud computing are considered as important like data security, virtualization security, partitioning security, Mobile cloud application security, Mobile device security. This paper gives a detailed study of security issues in mobile cloud computing and its prevention measures.

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Cloud Computing Digital Forensic challenges

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Using Blockchain to Preserve Chain of Custody: Cloud Forensics Analysis (S)

Using Blockchain to Preserve Chain of Custody: Cloud Forensics Analysis (S)

Digital Forensics Challenges in Cyberspace: Overcoming Legitimacy and Privacy Issues Through Modularisation

Survey on Security issues in Mobile Cloud Computing and Prevention Measures

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