A meta-analysis of cloud forensic frameworks and tools

Abstract

Cloud computing enables users to reduce their infrastructure cost and rely on cloud to deploy their applications. The ability to access cloud from any device and user friendly cloud services allows criminals to perform malicious activities. To perform investigation in cloud environment, digital forensics should be applied to cloud and this is termed as cloud forensics. This paper presents various challenges in the stages of digital forensics and their dissimilarity in the cloud environment. Many researchers proposed various flavors of cloud forensic framework but adversaries increase the malicious usage by taking advantage of lack of a standard cloud forensic framework. This made us to explore various existing frameworks for cloud forensics which could help to come up with a standardized framework. In this paper, existing tools for digital forensics is presented with their applicability to cloud environment.