Challenges of Digital Forensic Investigation in Cloud Computing

摘要

Cloud computing is a widely used technology these days. Most of the companies use this technique, because it reduces the cost and efforts which will be used to purchasing and managing the equipment for the business. Cloud computing has many features including scalability, availability, flexibility and many others. Even though cloud computing offers very important benefits to both public and commercial entities, it arises a new challenges for many fields in computer science, one of these fields is digital forensic. The investigators face many challenges when they investigate crime occurred using cloud. Many researchers try to identify and solve these challenges by proposing new methods and techniques. This paper highlights some of these challenges and discusses some potential solutions can be applied to solve them. The challenges were discussed in this paper are log files, volatile data, making forensic images, and data integrity.