Survey on Locating and Retrieving Artifacts Remnant on Cloud Storage: Advancement and Future Direction

The majority of cloud computing research being done today focuses on minimizing challenges thatforensic investigators can run into while trying to locate and retrieve artifacts from cloud devices. One ofthe challenges in locating and recovering artifacts from cloud settings is the variety of cloud serviceproviders, each with its own set of regulations, specifications, and needs. In two key stages—the gatheringof artifacts and the identification of evidence—this research suggests an inquiry strategy for finding andidentifying data fragments. The suggested method locates the artifacts in cloud storage and gathers them inthe artifacts collecting stage so that they may be examined further in the subsequent step. The gatheredartifacts will be examined to find evidence pertinent to the cybercrime under investigation during theevidence identification step. These two phases will carry out a coordinated procedure to lessen thechallenge of finding the artifacts and shorten the time required to find the pertinent evidence. Thesuggested method will be put into practice and evaluated by using the Windows 10 operating system toapply its algorithm to Sync cloud storage.