Cybercrime and Cloud Forensics: Applications for Investigation Processes

Cybercrime and Cloud Forensics: Applications for Investigation Processes

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 348

ISBN13: 9781466626621|ISBN10: 1466626623|EISBN13: 9781466626935

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2662-1

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While cloud computing continues to transform developments in information technology services, these advancements have contributed to a rise in cyber attacks; producing an urgent need to extend the applications of investigation processes.

Cybercrime and Cloud Forensics: Applications for Investigation Processes presents a collection of research and case studies of applications for investigation processes in cloud computing environments. This reference source brings together the perspectives of cloud customers, security architects, and law enforcement agencies in the developing area of cloud forensics.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Digital Forensic Investigation and Cloud Computing (pages 1-41)

Joshua I. James, Ahmed F. Shosha, Pavel Gladyshev

This chapter aims to be a high-level introduction into the fundamental concepts of both digital forensic investigations and cloud computing for non-experts in one or both areas. Once fundamental concepts are established, this work...

Chapter 2

Hack the Cloud: Ethical Hacking and Cloud Forensics (pages 42-58)

Mark Crosbie

The goal of this chapter is to explain the challenges that the forensic investigator faces when investigating Cloud Crime and how they can learn from the techniques used by Ethical Hackers to improve their investigation technique....

Chapter 3

Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence in the Cloud (pages 59-78)

Fred Cohen

Digital forensic evidence is subject to a variety of challenges, and these challenges apply in the Cloud as anywhere else. This chapter is an overview of these issues specifically oriented toward the Cloud Computing environments of...

Chapter 4

The Emergence of Cloud Storage and the Need for a New Digital Forensic Process Model (pages 79-104)

Richard Adams

Cloud computing is just one of many recent technologies that have highlighted shortcomings in the development of formal digital forensic processes, which up until now have been focused on a particular group of practitioners, such as...

Chapter 5

Forensic Readiness in the Cloud (FRC): Integrating Records Management and Digital Forensics (pages 105-128)

Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher, Barbara Endicott-Popovsky

This chapter focuses on a theoretical approach to proactive evidence collection and presents a conceptual approach for the Cloud. Forensic Readiness in the Cloud (FRC) calls upon technological and organizational strategies to address...

Chapter 6

Security Architecture and Forensic Awareness in Virtualized Environments (pages 129-155)

Diane Barrett

Just about every technology magazine and article published today mentions virtualization or cloud computing. Technically, the two are different but very much intertwined. When environments use virtualization, there are artifacts an...

Chapter 7

Seizing Electronic Evidence from Cloud Computing Environments (pages 156-185)

Josiah Dykstra

Despite a growing adoption of cloud computing, law enforcement and the judicial system are unprepared to prosecute cloud-based crimes. This chapter illuminates legal problems in the United States for electronic discovery and digital...

Chapter 8

Legal Process and Requirements for Cloud Forensic Investigations (pages 186-229)

Ivan Orton, Aaron Alva, Barbara Endicott-Popovsky

For the emerging field of cloud forensics, the development of validated and repeatable scientific processes for conducting cloud forensic investigations should include requirements that establish evidence collected as legally...

Chapter 9

Compliance in the Cloud and the Implications on Electronic Discovery (pages 230-250)

Dean Gonsowski

Cloud Computing will be a disruptive technology that will ultimately change the face of computing with a market approaching $300 billion over the next five years, according to recent study from the Market Intel Group (Mathews, 2010)....

Chapter 10

Data Recovery Strategies for Cloud Environments (pages 251-265)

Theodoros Spyridopoulos, Vasilios Katos

Data acquisition and data recovery are essential to any e-discovery or digital forensic process. However, these two aspects seem to be considerably difficult in a cloud-computing environment. The very nature of the Cloud raises a...

Chapter 11

Forensics as a Service (pages 266-290)

Jon Rav Gagan Shende

In today’s dynamic information technology system, one area of tremendous focus and recent growth has been that of the cloud-computing model in its various offerings. With this growth, however, come new challenges within the realms of...

Chapter 12

Forensics as a Service (pages 291-312)

Dener Didoné, Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz

Cloud computing as a paradigm shift is transforming how services are being delivered. In this chapter, the authors present a Forensics as a Service (FaaS) model using cloud computing to deliver forensic services. This model leverages...

Chapter 13

A Forensic-as-a-Service Delivery Platform for Law Enforcement Agencies (pages 313-330)

Fabio Marturana, Simone Tacconi, Giuseppe F. Italiano

With the global diffusion of cybercrime, the ever-growing market penetration of high-performance and low-cost personal digital devices, and the commercial success of cloud computing, the area of digital forensics is faced with...

Chapter 14

Designing a Forensic-Enabling Cloud Ecosystem (pages 331-344)

Keyun Ruan

Cloud computing is a major transition, and it comes at a unique historical and strategic time for applying foundational design thinking to secure the next-generation computing infrastructure and enable waves of business and...

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