Journal of Forensic Research

Issues in Acquiring Digital Evidence from Cloud

Abstract

Gaurav Chaurasia

Now a day cloud computing is grow day by day. We know that today many companies hire the cloud services from the cloud service providers. They are working as a third party. They are providing the software and hardware as a service. Client and the cloud service providers may be belong to the different place.

Because of the nature of the cyber space, there is no physical boundary. If suppose that crime scene occur in this scenario then the investigator face the many problems like collection to the evidence because we know that cloud forensic is the subset of the network forensic. So there is difficulty to identify the source. If suppose that investigator able to find the location, which exist outside the county then the jurisdiction issue will be occur. We know that every country has own jurisdiction. In this paper we will discussed the issues relating to the collection and acquisition the digital evidence with help of the real scenario. And we also discuss the some tool which is help in the collection evidence from the remote location.