Digital Evidence Management, Presentation, and Court Preparation in the Cloud

Cloud computing solutions have such a strong influence on all the aspects of human life from personal to business. In most cases, alongside progress, technology is a fertile ground for the increase of criminal activities. The ease of access to such Cloud resources is exploited by the criminals who design more sophisticated and targeted methods to hack any type of digital device or exploiting existing computing platforms for illegal activities. The adaptation of existing forensic procedures to Cloud computing platform is a challenge task due to the lack of efficient approach in handling, preparing and presenting the evidence extracted from a Cloud system. In this chapter, we present a forensic readiness approach for the digital evidence management, presentation and court preparation in the Cloud platform.