Solving Digital Crimes in the Cloud Faces Numerous Challenges

Grazed from GovTech. Author: Jessica Hughes.

Cloud technology can simplify many computing tasks, but solving a digital crime is not one of them. That’s why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued a draft report that identifies 65 forensic science challenges in the cloud, with the aim of building a roadmap to overcoming them. The report, NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges, collects and aggregates the problems and is the result of research from NIST’s Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group.

The 65 challenges reveal the magnitude of the problem that cloud computing presents, though it’s not an exhaustive list, said Martin Herman, senior adviser for forensics and IT at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "It shows that there is a lot work that needs to be done to overcome these challenges," said Herman, who co-chairs the working group…

The cloud environment is unique in that computing resources are separate from users and are pooled using a multi-tenant model, with data flowing among servers, service providers and even countries, according to NIST…

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