Hassanien A.E., Fouad M.M., Manaf A.A., Zamani M., Ahmad R., Kacprzyk J. (eds.) Multimedia Forensics and Security. Foundations, Innovations, and Applications

Springer, 2017. — 414 p.Digital forensics is the process of uncovering and interpreting electronic data. The goal of the process is to preserve any evidence in its most original form while performing a structured investigation by collecting, identifying and validating the digital information for the purpose of reconstructing past events. However, the emergence of the cloud computing structures and services, where the information is stored on anonymous data centers scattered around the world, makes the digital forensics pose more challenges for law enforcement agencies. Other problems are the variety formats and the exponential growth of data that need to be analyzed in reasonable time to conduct a forensics decision.
Although the trust is a fiduciary relationship between the law enforcement agencies and the cloud service providers, still there is fear that the information on cloud servers can be altered or hidden without a trace. Agencies are collecting unencrypted as well as encrypted content. This encrypted content presents another limitation for forensic investigators.
The objective of this book is to provide the researchers of computer science and information technology the challenges in the fields of digital forensics, which are required to achieve necessary knowledge about this emerging field. The book goes through defining the cloud computing paradigm and its impacts over the digital forensic science, to the proposal of some authentication and validation approaches. The book is organized into three parts: Part I introduces the challenges facing the digital forensics in the new computing paradigm; the cloud computing. This section provides the characteristics and the limitations attached to the forensic analysis in such paradigm. Part II focuses on the forensics in multimedia and provides the application of watermarking as an authentication and validation technique. Finally, Part III gives a number of recent innovations in the digital forensics field. These innovations include the data processing, the biometrics evaluations, the cryptography in Internet of Things, and the smart phone forensics.Part I Forensic Analysis in Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Forensic Analysis: Trends and Challenges
Data Storage Security Service in Cloud Computing: Challenges and Solutions
Homomorphic Cryptosystems for Securing Data in Public Cloud Computing
An Enhanced Cloud Based View Materialization Approach for Peer-to-Peer Architecture
Distributed Database System (DSS) Design over a Cloud Environment
A New Stemming Algorithm for Efficient Information Retrieval Systems and Web Search Engines
Part II Forensics Multimedia and Watermarking Techniques
Face Recognition via Taxonomy of Illumination Normalization
Detecting Significant Changes in Image Sequences
VW16E: A Robust Video Watermarking Technique Using Simulated Blocks
A Robust and Computationally Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique Using Inter Block Pixel Differencing
JPEG2000 Compatible Layered Block Cipher
Part III Digital Forensic Applications
Data Streams Processing Techniques
Evidence Evaluation of Gait Biometrics for Forensic Investigation
Formal Acceptability of Digital Evidence
A Comprehensive Android Evidence Acquisition Framework
A New Hybrid Cryptosystem for Internet of Things Applications
A Practical Procedure for Collecting More Volatile Information in Live Investigation of Botnet Attack