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The Basics of Digital Forensics, 2nd Edition
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The Basics of Digital Forensics, 2nd Edition

by John Sammons
December 2014
Beginner
200 pages
6h 8m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 11

Looking ahead: challenges and concerns

Abstract

Looking ahead, there are some significant challenges facing the digital forensic community. Two of these challenges, cloud computing and solid state hard drives (SSDs), are “game changers.” Digital evidence in those environments may very well be unrecoverable for a variety of technical or legal reasons.

Keywords

Solid State Drive (SSD)
cloud computing
Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
public cloud
garbage collection
Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
virtualization
standards and controls
wear leveling

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

—Arthur C. Clarke

Information in this chapter
Standards and Controls
Cloud Forensics
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