Practical Cyber Forensics: An Incident-Based Approach to Forensic Investigations

© Niranjan Reddy 2019

Niranjan ReddyPractical Cyber Forensicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4460-9_8

8. Cloud Forensics

Niranjan Reddy¹ 

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Pune, Maharashtra, India

 

I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster.… Carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

—Steve Jobs

The CLOUD services companies of all sizes.… The cloud is for everyone. THE CLOUD IS A DEMOCRACY.

—Marc Benioff, CEO – Salesforce

One of the fast-growing trends in the IT industry today is the widespread use of cloud computing. Developers are using cloud computing platform to develop tools, services, and products for a variety of fields.

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing services such as servers, storage, ...