Application of proactive digital forensics in Cloud Computing environment

The emergence of Cloud Computing has a significant impact on digital forensics, law and audit. Cloud service providers have not yet established a clearly defined process for digital forensics that would be admissible in court. Cloud forensics represents a new challenge for both service providers and users. Due to the decentralized nature of data processing in the Cloud, traditional approaches to evidence collection and recovery are no longer practical. In this paper we describe the problems of digital forensic investigations in the virtual environment, and discuss possible solutions to the implementation of proactive forensic investigation into the Cloud environment.