A Study on Cloud Forensics:Challenges, Tools and CSP Features

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way computing is performed and is expected to be the commonly adopted by all sectors of the industry. Further cloud’s increasing popularity, internet based access and proliferation of low-cost handheld devices is catalyzing cloud-based crimes. The cloud’s virtualized, shared and distributed environment complicates’ prevention and investigation of cloud-based crimes.  “Cloud Forensics” is the term used for conducting forensic investigation in cloud environment. This paper discusses the problems of forensic investigation in cloud, currently available tools for forensic investigation in cloud in brief and forensic-capability that a cloud service provider can have to support forensic investigation. The aim is to help researchers, developers and enterprises to work towards building a secure cloud environment.