A Survey on digital forensic investigation and its challenges in cloud using VM snapshots

computer science engineering

Cloud computing is becoming most promising technology in recent days. It offers the scalable elastic services to many users at a time and it helps to access the resources quickly from cloud service provider. Digital forensics is part of computer forensics. Various challenges of cloud hinder the process of cloud forensics so that no standard framework for cloud forensics can be designed. This paper gathers the challenges and possible solutions. As new technologies develop criminals find ways to apply these technologies to commit crimes. With the explosion of web technologies almost all major businesses in the world have web presence thus exposing their data to legitimate and illegitimate users. All forensic work should be done with care including documenting clear chain of custody in order for the evidence to be admissive in a court of law.There is need of dedicated digital forensic framework for cloud environment. System proposes an efficient approach to forensic investigation in cloud using Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots.

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