Cloud forensics: Model, challenges, and approaches

Cloud computing is widely recognized as one of the most important computing and network revolutions and the fastest growing IT infrastructure. In the process of ubiquitous adoption of cloud computing and cloud storage, the security, privacy and digital forensics of the data and activities in such environment plays an extremely critical role in protecting and maintaining personal and organizations’ data and regular operations. Data is stored and processed in various ways in the cloud and therefore there has been an increasing demand for new and novel forensic process, approaches, tools and methods to assist digital forensics investigators in acquiring, preserving, analysing, and presenting digital evidence. This chapter examines these aspects in cloud forensics aiming to provide an invaluable insight to the researchers and professionals in this and related fields.