Digital forensic methods for cybercrime investigation in a cloud computing environment (i.e., cloud forensic) is a broad term that encompasses a number of different fields, including digital forensics and cloud computing. The authors hope to gain a better understanding of cloud computing and identify challenges and opportunities in forensic science. They present research that may be used to establish strategies for the creation of measures, standards, and technological research to minimise the issues that cannot be solved with current technology and methodologies. Among the topics covered in this chapter are cloud computing, digital forensics, cybercrimes, and cloud forensics. Also covered are an overview and principles of cloud computing as well as digital forensics, cybercrimes, and challenges, as well as opportunities in the field of cloud forensics. The state of the art in the cloud forensic domain is also presented, as is a literature review on related work to digital forensics techniques in the cloud computing environment.
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