Forensics investigation challenges in cloud computing environments

Proceedings 2012 International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic, CyberSec 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 190-194

  Damshenas, Mohsen ^a   Dehghantanha, Ali ^a   Mahmoud, Ramlan ^a   Bin Shamsuddin, Solahuddin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Cyber Security Malaysia ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

cloud computing; forensic challenges; forensics investigation; security; virtualization

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OWNERS; CLOUD SERVICES; CLOUD SYSTEMS; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DIGITAL FORENSIC; FORENSIC CHALLENGES; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; FORENSICS INVESTIGATION; HYPERVISOR; MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION; PERSISTENT STORAGE; PHYSICAL EVIDENCE; PROCESS UNIT; SECURITY; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER FORENSICS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866690602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CyberSec.2012.6246092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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