Book Chapter on Cloud Forensics to Appear at ‘Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing’, Wiley

Title:`Cloud Forensics’,
Author: Shams Zawoad and Ragib Hasan,
Book Title: ‘Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing‘,
Publisher: Wiley,
Summary: Cloud forensics is a special branch of digital forensics, which is required to establish facts about incidents that are actively or passively related to clouds. However, today’s cloud computing architectures often lack support for forensic investigations because many of the assumptions that are taken for granted in traditional digital forensics do not apply to clouds. Hence, the existing digital forensics tools cannot cope with the dynamic and black-box natures of clouds. This chapter discusses the challenges of cloud forensics, discusses existing techniques to support reliable forensics, and explores the open problems in this area.