Review on Cloud Forensics: An Open Discussion on Challenges and Capabilities

Abstract

Amongst all recently emerging research paradigms, Cloud Computing is very much significant due to its utility services provisioning with shared and virtualized resources. Cloud is going to provide Everything-as-a-Service (EaaS) in very near future because all the services (Infrastructure, Platform, Software) will be made available as and when required and that too with high flexibility and low cost. Consumers can avail all the services without investing for infrastructures. There lies the spark of it which attracts the cloud attackers to get indulged in malicious activities and this creates a threat for this technology. Cloud Forensics is a new outlook introduced to identify, analyze and investigate these security threats. This paper insights a better awareness about cloud forensics illustrating all its related technical aspects, few of the suggested architectures and thus it identifies the major research scopes and challenges as well so that Cloud technology can be made secure from various threats and attacks.

Cloud Computing Security and Forensics Issues and Awareness of Cloud Storage Users in Malaysia

“…Hence, a good centralized security management and monitoring can be more effective for them because if they lack in security knowledge, they still believe in centralized and standardized cloud storage [46]. Furthermore, the mechanism of control can be attacked, breaking down isolation itself between users and allowing another user to access resources and data potentially when the network resources are being built on platforms, interfaces and systems that will share with others, another set of threat vectors are introduced in the meantime [47]. In addition, sometime the cloudshared architecture also puts a cloud service user at the risk from other cloud user if users themselves with their bad behaviour draw attention from either bad media publicity or law enforcement [48].…”