NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges

What NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges requires

This document summarizes research performed by the members of the NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group and aggregates, categorizes, and discusses the forensics challenges faced by experts when responding to incidents that have occurred in a cloud-computing ecosystem. The challenges are presented along with the associated literature that references them. The immediate goal of the document is to begin a dialogue on forensic science concerns in cloud computing ecosystems, with the long-term goal of gaining a deeper understanding of those concerns and identifying technologies and standards that can mitigate them. With the rapid adoption of cloud computing technology, a need has arisen for the application of digital forensic science to this domain. The validity and reliability of forensic science is crucial in this new context and requires new methodologies for identifying, collecting, preserving, and analyzing evidence in multi-tenant cloud environments. This is necessary to support U.S. criminal justice and civil litigation systems as well as to provide capabilities for security incident response and internal enterprise operations. The document categorizes challenges into nine major groups: Architecture, Data collection, Analysis, Anti-forensics, Incident first responders, Role management, Legal, Standards, and Training.

Pillar: Cloud & SaaS · Authority: National Institute of Standards and Technology · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated: 2020-08-31

Primary source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8006.pdf

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• Section 2.1: Cloud computing forensic science is the application of scientific principles, technological practices, and derived and proven methods to reconstruct past cloud computing events through the identification, acquisition, preservation, examination, interpretation, and reporting of potential digital evidence.
• Section 2.2: Compared to the challenges of traditional digital forensics, those of cloud forensics are considered to either be unique to the cloud environment or exacerbated by the cloud environment.

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