Cloud Forensics: A Review of Challenges, Solutions and Open Problems

2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing, ICCC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Alqahtany, Saad ^a   Clarke, Nathan ^a   Furnell, Steven ^a   Reich, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FURTWANGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Cloud Forensics challenges; Cloud Forensics Solutions; Digital Forensics; Digital Investigation

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DIGITAL FORENSICS;

CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD FORENSICS; COMPUTING PARADIGM; DIGITAL INVESTIGATION; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; RESEARCH PROPOSALS; RESOURCE POOLING; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 84941062481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUDCOMP.2015.7149635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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