Abstract
Nowadays, mobile cloud applications have attracted millions of smartphone users due to the proliferation of cyber technologies and a wide range of applications. Mobile cloud forensic investigation methodologies need tremendous growth due to the increasing crime incidents. The forensic readiness model plays a significant role in the forensic investigation framework by ensuring the ease of investigation to the forensic investigator. The existing forensic readiness supports either the mobile device or cloud environment, which lacks to prepare the information for the investigation. This article presents a mobile cloud forensic readiness process model to identify the factors and prepare the information that effectively supports forensic investigations. The proposed model involves requirements for the mobile cloud forensics from multiple perspectives with the aim of developing the forensic-ready system. As a result, the proposed forensic readiness model enables the mobile cloud forensic to improve the accuracy of investigation as well as reduces the investigation time significantly.
Highlights
The increased usage of mobile computing devices plays a significant role in planning daily routines, schedules, and activities over the Internet and facilitates ease of communication
In the context of the mobile cloud environment, the primary objective of the forensic readiness is establishing the lineage between the application activities in the mobile device and the cloud to improve the feasibility of evidence collection and minimize the cost of the forensic investigation
Preliminary process of selecting the relevant information such as appropriate tools, procedures, mechanisms, and access permissions enforces the forensic investigation to the improved accuracy rather than extracting all the information from the mobile and cloud to decide the potential evidence at the time of the investigation
Summary
The increased usage of mobile computing devices plays a significant role in planning daily routines, schedules, and activities over the Internet and facilitates ease of communication. The applications in Smartphones require high processing power, which is further addressed by cloud computing that offers the computing ability available to mobile users. To deal with the cybercrime activities in the cloud-based mobile applications, integrating mobile forensics and cloud forensics has become a significant research area (Ben, Do, & Choo, 2015). Digital forensic readiness (Ausra, 2017) is one of the abilities of an organization in minimizing the investigation cost and maximizing the applicability of the evidence. The existing researchers fail to develop the forensic readiness model for the mobile cloud forensic investigation framework. It is necessary to develop the mobile cloud forensic readiness model with the target of improving the investigation accuracy and reducing the investigation cost on the cloud-based mobile applications
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