Remote programmatic vCloud forensics: A six-step collection process and a proof of concept

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 935-942

  Martini, Ben ^a   Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud forensics; Remote cloud forensic process; Remote evidence collection; Remote evidence preservation; VCloud

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WEB SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD FORENSICS; COLLECTION PROCESS; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION; EVIDENCE COLLECTION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; VCLOUD;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 84922962817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2014.124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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