A Review on Forensic Investigation Analysis in Cloud Computing Environments

In cloud forensics, scientific concepts, methods, and approaches are used to find, collect, retain, evaluate, and report digital data in order to reorder events. For everyone involved, including cloud service providers (CSPs), cloud consumers, researchers, and forensic practitioners, cloud forensics is getting increasingly complex. If a criminal want to conceal their dirty laundry, they can use cloud storage to conceal sexual photographs of children, documents related to terrorist groups, etc. To investigate crimes involving the cloud, forensic investigations must be undertaken in the cloud. While attempting to collect evidence, forensic investigators face significant obstacles posed by the cloud's dynamic and dispersed nature. In this paper, Cloud-based forensics professionals are only able to conduct investigations if they have access to the proper tools and techniques for retrieving relevant digital evidence from a device is discussed. It further presents the challenges associated with cloud based forensics and applications to move forward the research in current area.