Digital forensics in the Cloud: The state of the art

2015 IST-Africa Conference, IST-Africa 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sibiya, George ^a   Venter, Hein S ^b   Fogwill, Thomas ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cloud computing; Digital forensic process; Digital forensics; survey

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER CRIME; DIGITAL FORENSICS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD FORENSICS; CLOUD-BASED; EXISTING ARCHITECTURES; FUTURE CHALLENGES; NEW APPROACHES; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 84946605793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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