Digital forensics challenges to big data in the cloud

Xiaohua Feng
,
Yuping Zhao

School of Computing Engineering and Creative Industries
,
Peking University

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Open access

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Abstract

As a new research area, Digital Forensics is a subject in a rapid development society. Cyber security for Big Data in the Cloud is getting attention more than ever. Computing breach requires digital forensics to seize the digital evidence to locate who done it and what has been done maliciously and possible risk/damage assessing what loss could leads to. In particular, for Big Data attack cases, Digital Forensics has been facing even more challenge than original digital breach investigations. Nowadays, Big Data due to its characteristics of three “V”s (Volume, Velocity, and Variety), they are either synchronized with Cloud (Such as smart phone) or stored on the Cloud, in order to sort out the storage capacity etc. problems, which made Digital Forensics investigation even more difficult. The Big Data-Digital Forensics issue for Cloud is difficult due to some issues. One of them is physically identify specific wanted device. Data are distributed in the cloud, customer or the digital forensics practitioner cannot have a fully access control like the traditional investigation does. The Smart City technique is making use of ICT (information communications technology) to collecting, detecting, analysing and integrating the key information data of core systems in running the cities. Meantime, the control is making intelligent responses to different requirements that include daily livelihood, PII (Personally identifiable information) security, environmental protection, public safety, industrial and commercial activities and city services. The Smart City data are Big Data, collected and gathered by the IoT (Internet of Things). This paper has summerised our review on the trends of Digital Forensics served for Big Data. The evidence acquisition challenge is discussed. A case study of a Smart City project with the IoT collected services Big data which are stored at the cloud computing environment is represented. The techniques can be generalised to other Big Data in the Cloud environment.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 858-862 (5 pages)

Publication milestones

Published - 28/04/2017

Publication status

Published - 28/04/2017

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

Publication series

Publication series name: Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, IEEE Green Computing and Communications, IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData 2017
Volume: 2018-January

ISBN (Electronic)

9781538630655

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/622088
Scopus: 85047433604

Host publication title

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, IEEE Green Computing and Communications, IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, IEEE Smart Data, iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData 2017