Digital Forensic Investigation Challenges based on Cloud Computing Characteristics

  • Authors

    • Ganthan Narayana Samy
    • Nurazean Maarop
    • Mohd Shahidan Abdullah
    • Sundresan Perum
    • Sameer Hasan Albakri
    • Bharanidharan Shanmugam
    • Premylla Jeremiah
    2018-10-07
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21361
  • Cloud Computing Characteristics, Cloud Computing Forensics, Digital Forensics Challenges, Digital Forensics Processes.

  • Abstract

    One of the most popular computing technologies is cloud computing. There are many benefits in adopting cloud computing such as high-performance, flexibility and availability on-demand, more focused on the business objective and low-cost. However, the characteristics of the cloud computing environment have created many difficulties and challenges for digital forensic investigation processes. Therefore, this paper focuses on the digital forensic investigation challenges based on cloud computing characteristics.

     

     

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    Narayana Samy, G., Maarop, N., Shahidan Abdullah, M., Perum, S., Hasan Albakri, S., Shanmugam, B., & Jeremiah, P. (2018). Digital Forensic Investigation Challenges based on Cloud Computing Characteristics. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.15), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21361

    Received date: 2018-10-09

    Accepted date: 2018-10-09

    Published date: 2018-10-07