Hi Kaylab,
I'm working on cloud forensics, too.
In my opinion, there are three main (most important) parts: jurisdiction, organisation and technical issues a forensic investigator is faced.
This means, that you have to note facts about the storage placement and the legal requirements for accessing the data, but imho this is not really a problem for forensic research.
In my opinion, a forensic investigator has three points to access for data stored and used in the cloud.
1. The computer or mobile phone of the victim or the suspicious offender (lets call it local)
2. The cloud envireonment, e.g the server for hosting (store and application systems), lets call it remote
3. The way between local and remote, aka the network.
Best results can be reached by combination of these three parts. I'm working on the network part, which means, that my main research is actually analyzing network traffic (local, remote, and between) to validate the usage of cloud services.
↧