Cloud Forensics: Issues and Challenges

Abstract

Cloud Computing is an emerging area nowadays. Pay per model is gaining commercial aspect day by day. Researchers are working on all aspects of cloud viz. cloud network architecture, scheduling policies, virtualization, hyper visor performance scalability, I/O efficiency, data integrity and data confidentiality of data intensive applications. The dynamic nature of cloud presents researchers new area of research that is cloud forensics. Cloud Forensics is the branch of forensics for applying computer science knowledge to prove digital artifacts. With the advent of innovative cloud infrastructure, Cloud forensics has unique challenges. This paper presents challenges the cloud forensics faces the types of thefts on cloud environment and proposed architecture for cloud forensics.