Foreniscs Analysis of Cloud Computing Services

Cloud computing services have become popular among businesses and individuals. A common application of cloud computing service is cloud storage service. Cloud storage services provide storage to the individuals and businesses. Businesses and individuals generally use cloud storage services for backup purposes and for sharing documents, pictures, videos, and multimedia files with others. When using cloud storage services, there are two main concerns namely, cloud security and forensics investigation in the cloud. The security concern is, the data stored in the cloud be compromised. The forensics concern is, the recovery of computer evidence from the cloud is more complicated. This research contributes to the forensics analysis of cloud storage services. We report the result of our experiment in obtaining forensics artifacts from cloud storage services such as Dropbox. We demonstrate that the use of computer forensics tools and systematic forensics methodologies can produce valuable artifacts to the computer forensics investigators. This is because criminals may use cloud services for illegal purposes. Moreover, we use Wireshark to analyze network traffic log files after working with cloud software to determine the details of activities in the cloud.