Cloud forensics definitions and critical criteria for cloud forensic capability: An overview of survey results

With the rapid growth of global cloud adoption in private and public sectors, cloud computing environments is becoming a new battlefield for cyber crime. In this paper, the researcher presents the results and analysis of a survey that was widely circulated among digital forensic experts and practitioners internationally on cloud forensics and critical criteria for cloud forensic capability in order to better understand the key fundamental issues of cloud forensics such as its definition, scope, challenges, opportunities as well as missing capabilities based on the 257 collected responses.