Feds Pursue Cloud Forensics Standards

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: William Welsh.

NIST identifies 65 challenges that forensic investigators face in gathering and analyzing digital information stored in the cloud, seeks help developing standards to aid law enforcement. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft report for public comment that sets forth the daunting challenges forensic examiners face in tracking down and using digital information stored in the cloud.

The draft report, "NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges," sets forth 65 challenges of cloud forensics divided into nine categories that a working group drawn from the government, private sector and academia has identified in the course of its examination of the challenge…

"The long-term goal of this effort is to build a deeper understanding of, and consensus on, the high-priority challenges so that the public and private sectors can collaborate on effective responses," said Martin Herman, co-chairman of NIST’s Cloud Computing Forensic Working Group…

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