Chapter 16

Recovering residual forensic data from smartphone interactions with cloud storage providers

George Grisposa; William Bradley Glissonb; Tim Storera    a School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdomb School of Computing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA

Abstract

There is a growing demand for cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box, Syncplicity, and SugarSync. These public cloud storage services can store gigabytes of corporate and personal data in remote data centers around the world, which can then be synchronized to multiple devices. This creates an environment which is potentially conducive to security incidents, data breaches, and other malicious activities. The forensic investigation ...

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