Trustworthy Digital Forensics in the Cloud

Shams Zawoad; Ragib Hasan

doi:10.1109/MC.2016.89

Computer

Trustworthy Digital Forensics in the Cloud

Mar. 2016, pp. 78-81, vol. 49

DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/MC.2016.89

Authors

Shams Zawoad, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Digital Forensics, Computer Architecture, Computer Hacking, Reliability, Computational Modeling, Cloud Cover, Cloud, Security, Digital Forensics, Cloud Forensics, Open Cloud Forensics, OCF, FE Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, CS Ps, Provenance

Abstract

Digital forensics is used to help investigate cybercrime. Because of its characteristics and rapid adoption, the cloud requires its own form of forensics, which must be reliable. The authors have developed the Open Cloud Forensics (OCF) model and FECloud architecture, which would enable effective cloud forensics.

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