Proposed Proactive Digital Forensic Approach for Cloud Computing Environment

  • Authors

    • Ganthan Narayana Samy
    • Nurazean Maarop
    • Doris Hooi-Ten Wong
    • Fiza Abdul Rahim
    • Noor Hafizah Hassan
    • Sundresan Perumal
    • Pritheega Magalingam
    • Sameer Hasan Albakri
    2018-10-07
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21362
  • Cloud Computing Environment, Digital Forensic, Digital Forensics Approach, Digital Forensics Processes.

  • Abstract

    There are many challenges for the digital forensic process in the cloud computing due to the distinguished features of the cloud computing environment. Many of well-known digital forensic methods and tools are not suitable for cloud computing environment. The multi-tenancy, multi-stakeholder, Internet-based, dynamics expendability, and massive data, logs and datasets are examples of the cloud computing environment features that make conducting digital forensics in the cloud computing environment a very difficult task. Therefore, there is a need to develop an appropriate digital forensic approach for cloud computing environment. Thus, this paper proposed a proactive digital forensic approach for cloud computing environment.

     

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    Narayana Samy, G., Maarop, N., Hooi-Ten Wong, D., Abdul Rahim, F., Hafizah Hassan, N., Perumal, S., Magalingam, P., & Hasan Albakri, S. (2018). Proposed Proactive Digital Forensic Approach for Cloud Computing Environment. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.15), 12-15. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21362

    Received date: 2018-10-09

    Accepted date: 2018-10-09

    Published date: 2018-10-07