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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2013.23.2.223

Integrity verification of VM data collected in private cloud environment and reliability verification of related forensic tools  

Kim, Deunghwa (Center for Information Security Technologies(CIST), Korea University)
Jang, Sanghee (Center for Information Security Technologies(CIST), Korea University)
Park, Jungheum (Center for Information Security Technologies(CIST), Korea University)
Kang, Cheulhoon (Digital Forensic Center, Supreme Prosecutors' Office)
Lee, Sangjin (Center for Information Security Technologies(CIST), Korea University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.23, no.2, 2013 , pp. 223-230 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, a large number of corporations are adopting cloud solution in order to reduce IT-related costs. By the way, Digital Trace should have admissibility to be accepted as digital evidence in court, and integrity is one of the factors for admissibility. In this context, this research implemented integrity verification test to VM Data which was collected by well-known private cloud solutions such as Citrix, VMware, and MS Hyper-V. This paper suggests the effective way to verify integrity of VM data collected in private cloud computing environment based on the experiment and introduces the error that EnCase fails to mount VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) files properly.
Keywords
Digital Forensics; Cloud Forensics; Citrix; VM Ware; Hyper-V; Data Export;
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