Cloud forensics 2016 - Special Issue on “Cloud Forensics: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions”

Digital Investigation, Special Issue on “Cloud Forensics: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions”
(Submission due: 31 Oct 2015 - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-investiga...)
Guest Editors:
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of South Australia, Australia
Martin Herman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Michaela Iorga, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Ben Martini, University of South Australia, Australia
This special issue invites original research papers that reports on state-of-the-art and recent advancements in this under-researched area of enquiry, with a particular emphasis on novel techniques and practical applications for the forensic community as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
? Anti-cloud forensics;
? Balancing need for lawful surveillance / forensics and right to privacy;
? Cloud forensic-by-design;
? Cloud incident response;
? Cloud investigation;
? Cloud privacy;
? Cloud security;
? Cloud storage forensics;
? Cloud triage;
? Cybercrime in the cloud;
? Critical infrastructure in the cloud;
? E-discovery challenges in the cloud;
? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) forensics;
? Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications in the cloud;
? Legal challenges (e.g. inter-jurisdictional challenges);
? Mobile cloud forensics; and
? Software as a Service (SaaS) forensics.