Towards an Applicability of Current Network Forensics for Cloud Networks: A SWOT Analysis

IEEE Access

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Ainuddin Wahid Abdul Wahab¹  Omar Adil Mahdi¹  Salman Iqbal¹  Ahmed Abdelaziz¹  Suleman Khan¹  Abdullah Gani¹  Abdelmuttlib Ibrahim Abdallaahmed¹  Muhammad Khurram Khan²  Ziar Khan³  Yusor Rafid Bahar Al-Mayouf⁴  Muhammad Shiraz⁵  Kwangman Ko⁶  Victor Chang⁷ 

[1] Center for Mobile Cloud Computing Research, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;

[2] Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

[3] Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan;

[4] Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangssan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia;

[5] Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;

[6] School of computer and information engineering, Sang-Ji University, Wonju, Kangwon, Korea;

[7] Xi&x2019;

关键词: Cloud investigation;    network forensics;    SWOT analysis;    cloud networks;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2631543

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, the migration of the computational workload to computational clouds has attracted intruders to target and exploit cloud networks internally and externally. The investigation of such hazardous network attacks in the cloud network requires comprehensive network forensics methods (NFM) to identify the source of the attack. However, cloud computing lacks NFM to identify the network attacks that affect various cloud resources by disseminating through cloud networks. In this paper, the study is motivated by the need to find the applicability of current (C-NFMs) for cloud networks of the cloud computing. The applicability is evaluated based on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to outlook the cloud network. To the best of our knowledge, no research to date has been conducted to assist network forensics investigators and cloud service providers in finding an optimal method for investigation of network vulnerabilities found in cloud networks. To this end and in this paper, the state-of-the-art C-NFMs are classified and analyzed based on the cloud network perspective using SWOT analysis. It implies that C-NFMs have a suitable impact on cloud network, which further requires for reformation to ensure its applicability in cloud networks.

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