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Cloud Forensics

The process of collecting, analyzing, and preserving digital evidence from cloud storage and services.

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Jan 23, 2026

What digital forensic techniques do investigators use to trace viewers of child sexual abuse material?

Investigators combine established forensic collection—disk and mobile imaging, metadata extraction, and —with automated detection (hash matching) and newer to identify who viewed or distributed (CSAM)...

Jan 22, 2026

How do cloud providers typically preserve and deliver forensic evidence to law enforcement during urgent CSAM investigations?

Cloud providers preserve and deliver forensic evidence in urgent by rapidly flagging and preserving relevant artifacts (snapshots, logs, runtime data), applying legal processes or preservation orders,...