“ WE NOW UNIFY AND AUTOMATE THOSE WORKFLOWS ACROSS THE ENTIRE BUSINESS VIA ONE HOLISTIC SOLUTION , AND WE ' RE THE ONLY COMPANY DOING THAT ”
BOBBY BALACHANDRAN CEO OF EXTERRO
It is also crucial to have a prior evaluation of the factors that would affect the analysis solution , such as financial impact , analysis location , data volume , or even the tools ' availability . Data analysis tools often come along with the cloud hosting package , but make sure that it would be sufficient for your company ' s standard of procedure for investigations .
The National Institute of Standards and Technology ' s Cloud Computing Forensic Science Working Group ' s research on Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges maps into nine distinct categories the 65 issues it managed to identify regarding the forensics around cloud computing .
These nine categories are :
• Architecture , which is related to diversity , complexity , provenance , multi-tenancy and data segregation .
• Data collection , which mainly covers data integrity , data recovery , data location and imaging .
• Analysis , including identifying correlation , reconstruction , time synchronisation , logs , metadata and timeline issues .
• Anti-forensics , all challenges relating to obfuscation , data hiding and malware , especially those designed to prevent or mislead forensic analysis .
• Incident first responders , with verification of the trustworthiness of cloud
40 May 2022