Cloud forensics: Identifying the major issues and challenges

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8484 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 271-284

  Simou, Stavros ^a   Kalloniatis, Christos ^a   Kavakli, Evangelia ^a   Gritzalis, Stefanos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Cloud Forensics; Cloud Forensics Challenges; Cloud Forensics Process; Digital Forensics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

CLOUD FORENSICS; DIGITAL CRIME; DIGITAL FORENSIC; DIGITAL INVESTIGATION; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84903211718     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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