NIST releases guidance on boosting cloud-based cyber incident investigation capabilities

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is providing guidance to help organizations enhance the speed of information-gathering capabilities to support investigations of cyber-criminal activity, in a recent publication that offers a reference architecture and methods for improving forensic analysis.

“This document addresses the need to support a cloud system’s forensic readiness, which is the ability to collect digital forensic evidence quickly and effectively with minimal investigation costs by proactively addressing known challenges that could impact such data collection,” NIST...