International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies (IJWMT)
IJWMT Vol. 10, No. 5, 8 Oct. 2020
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Cloud Forensics: Challenges and Blockchain Based Solutions
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Author(s)
Omi Akter
1,*
Arnisha Akther
2
Md Ashraf Uddin
2
Manowarul Islam
2
Index Terms
Cloud Digital Forensics, Challenges, Digital Forensics, Forensics Tools, Blockchain, IoT, Solutions
Abstract
With the advancement in digital forensics, digital forensics has been evolved in Cloud computing. A common process of digital forensics mainly includes five steps: defining problem scenario, collection of the related data, investigation of the crime scenes, analysis of evidences and case documentation. The conduction of digital forensics in cloud results in several challenges, security, and privacy issues. In this paper, several digital forensics approaches in the context of IoT and cloud have been presented. The review focused on zone-based approach for IoT digital forensics where the forensics process is divided into three zones. Digital forensics in cloud provides the facilities of large data storage, computational capabilities and identification of criminal activities required for investigating forensics. We have presented a brief study on several issues and challenges raised in each phase of Cloud forensics process. The solution approaches as well as advancement prospects of cloud forensics have been described in the light of Blockchain technology. These studies will broaden the way to new researchers for better understanding and devising new ideas for combating the challenges.
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Omi Akter, Arnisha Akther, Md Ashraf Uddin, Md Manowarul Islam, " Cloud Forensics: Challenges and Blockchain Based Solutions", International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies(IJWMT), Vol.10, No.5, pp. 1-12, 2020. DOI: 10.5815/ijwmt.2020.05.01
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