From: fedscoop
Like the use of forensics at a physical crime scene, digital forensics is the use of science to find critical data in an investigation, extract it from a computer and then analyze it for some purpose. But as more IT resources are moved to the cloud, experts tasked with tracing that data are finding it more difficult to connect a file to a user.
The challenges facing digital forensics experts — whether they be law enforcement investigating a cyber crime or corporate security officers pursuing an internal policy violation — led the National Institute for Standards and Technology to create a cloud computing forensic science working group. And that group released a draft report Monday that for the first time explores in detail the difficulties involved in cloud-based forensics.
“The question arises as cloud computing becomes more popular, how do you do forensics for information that’s in the cloud?” working group co-chair Dr. Martin Herman, said. Herman is also a senior adviser for forensics and IT at NIST.
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