As the use - and abuse - of cloud computing increases, it becomes necessary to conduct forensic analyses of cloud computing systems. This paper evaluates the feasibility of performing a digital forensic investigation on a cloud computing system. Specifically, experiments were conducted on the Nimbula on-site cloud operating system to determine if meaningful information can be extracted from a cloud system. The experiments involved planting known, unique files in a cloud computing infrastructure, and subsequently performing forensic captures of the virtual machine image that executes in the cloud. The results demonstrate that it is possible to extract key information about a cloud system and, in certain cases, even re-start a virtual machine. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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Ras, D., & Olivier, M. (2012). Finding file fragments in the cloud. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 383 AICT, pp. 169–185). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33962-2_12
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