Digital Forensic Investigation of Cloud Storage Services
This addresses the need for forensic tools in cloud storage to combat abuse, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing forensic methods for new device types.
The paper tackles the problem of malicious abuse of cloud storage services by proposing a new digital forensic investigation procedure for analyzing artifacts across multiple devices, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android smartphones.
The demand for cloud computing is increasing because of the popularity of digital devices and the wide use of the Internet. Among cloud computing services, most consumers use cloud storage services that provide mass storage. This is because these services give them various additional functions as well as storage. It is easy to access cloud storage services using smartphones. With increasing utilization, it is possible for malicious users to abuse cloud storage services. Therefore, a study on digital forensic investigation of cloud storage services is necessary. This paper proposes new procedure for investigating and analyzing the artifacts of all accessible devices, such as Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android smartphone.