Cloud forensics: A research perspective

2013 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 66-71

  Almulla, Sameera ^a   Iraqi, Youssef ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a,b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cloud computing; cloud forensics; digital forensics; distributed computing; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FORENSICS; CLOUD SERVICES; COMPUTING ELEMENT; DEPLOYMENT MODELS; DIFFERENT SERVICES; DIGITAL FORENSIC; SET OF QUESTIONS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; UNDERPINNINGS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84881096015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Innovations.2013.6544395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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