Chapter 11
Looking ahead: challenges and concerns
Abstract
Looking ahead, there are some significant challenges facing the digital forensic community. Two of these challenges, cloud computing and solid state hard drives (SSDs), are “game changers.” Digital evidence in those environments may very well be unrecoverable for a variety of technical or legal reasons.
Keywords
Solid State Drive (SSD)
cloud computing
Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
public cloud
garbage collection
Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
virtualization
standards and controls
wear leveling
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—Arthur C. Clarke
Information in this chapter
• Standards and Controls
• Cloud Forensics
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