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Evolving Evidence Gathering Process: Cloud Forensics

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Identification of data which is stored in the cloud is complicated than what we expect and collection of evidence which is robust, tamper-proof and stands in the court of law is one of the most challenging aspects of the whole procedure. The data for which the whole process is being executed can be reserved on the data-centers, can be placed anywhere across the globe. Feasibility of accessing the data on the physical drive is much less when we see the scenario of cloud storage and processing. Case studies, guidelines and advisories till date majorly describes those traditional processes i.e maintaining chain of custody, search and seizure, etc. But the principle concern are gathering the data, integrity and reliability of the data that is to be analyzed after seizure and Formation of essential requirements like, Cloud Infrastructure, instances, services to run upon and most important—Client, for testing the procedure. Infrastructure to be used, compatibility issues, guidelines and advisories have been finalized to achieve the primary aspects that is: Assess the nobility and dependability of the extracted information that is not compromised, tampered.

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  1. Center for Cyber Security, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, India

    Pranjal Srivastava & Arjun Choudhary

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shailesh Tiwari

  2. Department of Information Systems, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia

    Erma Suryani

  3. Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Singapore

    Andrew Keong Ng

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

    K. K. Mishra

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Nitin Singh

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Srivastava, P., Choudhary, A. (2021). Evolving Evidence Gathering Process: Cloud Forensics. In: Tiwari, S., Suryani, E., Ng, A.K., Mishra, K.K., Singh, N. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and their Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 150. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8377-3_20

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