This Article Begins By Describing That The Cloud Computing

This case gives us a fundamental understanding of the concept of cloud computing and presents the advantages and issues of this IT infrastructure. This case gives a clear vision of the company’s current situation. Three main questions to consider

This research paper tackles the issues that faces Cloud Computing today and gives the experts and industry’s point of view on the matter. The aspects explored are the significant industry questions that have risen about the use of Cloud Computing, business value, organization impact, adaptability, limitations, initial cost of implementation, and the severe business security risks

In his article “Online 24/7: ‘Life Logging’ Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing”, Larry Greenemeier (2011) describes the idea of cloud technology, where it stands today and where we are heading to. According to Greenemeier’s article, the idea of cloud computing is to make all the information and services available via web. It will enable access to data and apps without the need for a lot of storage or processing power on the devices themselves.

User can store their data on cloud and reveal from the local data storage and its maintenance. Cloud is in a distributive in nature includes shared pool of configuring resources both in hardware and software. As an increasing number of clients who store their

Cloud Forensics combines cloud computing and digital forensics. It is concerned with computer forensics with some consideration to network/intrusion forensics. Computer forensic focus on using procedures to create audit trails based on the residing data. Network forensic focus on analyzing network traffic and gathering information by monitoring that traffic to extract or collect information that might be considered a possible evidence. Intrusion forensic is concerned with investigating possible intrusions to computers or networks [4] [5].

Hence Hadoop Cloud is an emerging field for forensic investigators. Most accurate evidences can be extracted from cloud serves; however forensic investigators may not grant access to Hadoop Cloud servers due to privacy policies followed by cloud providers. Although it is, in principle, possible for the evidences to be obtained from the cloud service provider, this process may take a significant amount of time, or be obstructed by cross-border jurisdictional disputes. The amount of evidences can be extracted from client devices that may be of forensic investigator’s interests. Android smart devices are popular client devices to access Hadoop Cloud. Thus, the focus of this research is to locate artifacts left on attached Android devices, when a user has carried out different activities such as upload to and download of files and folders.

Cyber forensics investigation requires collecting, examining, operating and reporting of information. The best possible way of collecting and examining the information helps examiner to determine better security countermeasures. Through the execution of information, storage devices and modern networks provides a great establishment to make a scene to view in a criminal point . But the modern networks are designed in a such a way that ,it is not easy to arrange them for the crime scene investigation programs. The old protocols and traditional architectures, which are few decades old, combined with rare restrictive technologies can make the creation of cyber forensic

Data is lost when an adversary cancels a cloud contract and a VM is powered down as a result. Real network and router logs cannot be gathered by the cloud customer for forensic purposes. Evidence is untrustworthy due to the cloud service provider (CSP) involvement in the collection of evidential data. Metadata is lost in the process of evidence gathering and the integrity of evidence data gathered cannot be verified. Another challenge is that evidence gathering has to be timely to prevent an adversary of destroying or modifying data in the time that the law enforcement agency (LEA) has to wait for search warrants due red tape of cross border investigations due to the distributed nature of cloud computing. Due to the elastic resources of cloud computing environments and increasing storage capacity of devices and computer systems, there is really no limit to storage capacity and the investigator is faced with the problem of gathering extremely large volumes of data placed in the cloud by cloud customers. The amount of forensic data to be processed is outgrowing the ability to process the data in a timely manner. The process of the evidence gathering in the cloud computing has become cumbersome and time consuming for the investigator and disruptive for the cloud customer. LEAs are increasingly finding that the data in question are either inaccessible or very difficult to access.

The primary focus of behind the literature search is to research about the latest trends in the log analysis based monitoring tools of cloud which also provides the features for forensics ability. We list below our analysis of different papers we read which pertains information related to our topic. We have analyzed various tools and techniques available, which are doing log analysis on a cloud. The motive of which is to create a novel log based private cloud analysis build with the help of OpenStack cloud operating system.

The Cloud Computing is one of the fastest growing technology that attracts researchers to add and improve its services [1][7]. Organizations benefit from this technology by replacing traditional IT hardware and data centers with remote, on-demand paid hardware and software services, that are configured for their particular needs, managed and hosted by the organization users or even a third party. This increases the organization’s flexibility and efficiency, without the need to have a dedicated IT staff or owning special hardware equipment or software licenses.

This section of paper includes why we need cloud computing as a security control tool against the cyber criminal activities and in how many ways it can be implemented. As we are living in a technical era, many aspects of our lives rely on the Internet and computers, including transportation, communications, government, medicine, finance and education. Consider how much of our personal information is stored either on our own computer or on someone else’s system.

In this article, we discuss about the different cloud types and models, threats and vulnerabilities of cloud, and how to manage them. The main aim of this literature review is to identify the weak points in cloud computing, minimize the threats and improve the security system. We will also discuss two of the main concepts of cloud – virtualization and multi-tenancy (Mishra, Mathur, Jain, & Rathore, 2013). A brief analysis of each of the threat and security measure is described in the literature review.

Meyer and Stander, (2015) Suggests that the process of digital data evidence is essential for a cloud customer to be able to know where the digital evidence is located and how to access it.if the digital information cannot be established in the first step the chain of custody therefore collapses and that limits the digital evidence of information to be justifiable in a court of law. Issues and challenges in the digital evidence classification phase were established and this was mainly in three categories namely:

Usage of remote servers via internet to store, manage and process data instead of using a personal computer is known as Cloud computing. It’s a set of Information Technology services with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Most of the cloud services are provided by a third party service provider. In cloud computing, organizations can utilize IT services without in advance investment. Despite its benefits obtained from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges. Security is one of the major problems which hinder the growth of cloud. It’s not wise to handing over the important data to another company; such that clients need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data infringement in this new environment. This paper discusses a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges. (Ayoleke)

This project is going to discuss about the Cloud Computing and its application in business. To briefly describe what cloud