What are the challenges of cloud forensics crimes?

Cloud is inundating every field and forensics is no different. Cloud forensics is nothing but using cloud computing in advanced forensics to explore and investigate criminal cases. Cloud computing has proved to be very beneficial to the forensic community. Data analysis in cloud forensics has made it easier to extract and analyse user information. While investigating a crime, cloud forensics solutions can be easily scaled to get data stored in different sources. If you are an investigator investigating a company, you will unknowingly acquire some residual data of some other company that might cause ambiguity and confusion. This is one key challenge of cloud forensics—the access to too much data and the extra time needed to analyse it.

Another challenge of cloud forensics is to create a viable environment that has the capacity to fully realize the potential of the cloud. For this, it is very important to have sufficient knowledge of digital forensics and the specific tools that use cloud data extractions techniques, at the same time reduce the risk of security breaches. Cloud forensics is still in the nascent stage and digital forensics experts are still exploring its potential.

Challenges of cloud forensics

Conventional forensics is still exploring cloud computing advantages. Here are a few challenges faced in cloud forensics solutions:

• There is often a dearth of access to a large firewall.
• During the mapping process, there is a chance to lose user information due to the sudden shut down of servers.
• Lack of access to network equipment like load balancers, and network routers.
• Problem in imaging hops from one system to another as it would be a static process in cloud routing schemes.
• There can be malicious nodes, lack of access to logs, and chances of information getting deleted.

Another major issue of cloud computing is analyzing and grouping of information after cloud data extractions because of the diversity of data sources. Amidst the sea of data available in the cloud, it is a huge task to sort the data without making any mistakes and then draw inferences from it. Most forensic experts cite this as the most irritating problem.

Solution to cloud forensic challenges

As mentioned above, data extraction and data analytic is a major challenge in using cloud computing in forensics. However, there are tools and devices like Cellebrite UFED cloud analyzer that can make cloud forensics an easy task.

Cloud is a critical source of data while investigating any case. Accessing and reviewing the vast quantum of data can be quite challenging and tedious. Cellebrite UFED cloud analyzer is one of the sought-after devices by many law enforcement agencies and acts as a primary investigating tool in any digital data investigation.

This system can help you to extract, analyse and report cloud-based data from a single user interface. You can access data from public and private domains. Whether it is social media, file storage units, messaging apps, webpages, or other cloud-based content, you can access data using Cellebrite UFED cloud analyzer. It also helps to preserve this data. You can access more than forty most popular data sources using this solution (such as Facebook, Google, iCloud and Google backup, Uber, Lyft, DJI Go for drones and Coinbase)

With this solution you can easily search, sort, categorize and filter data to identify the suspects and understand the crime scene better. All this can well be within the boundaries of law. This user-friendly cloud forensics solution is integrated into Cellebrite Digital Intelligence Platform. You can buy this as a stand-alone solution or as an additional component to the Cellebrite Physical Analyser solution.

Bottom line

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