Fog Computing: Issues and Challenges in Security and Forensics

Abstract

Although Fog Computing is defined as the extension of the Cloud Computing paradigm, its distinctive characteristics in the location sensitivity, wireless connectivity, and geographical accessibility create new security and forensics issues and challenges which have not been well studied in Cloud security and Cloud forensics. In this paper, through an extensive review of the motivation and advantages of the Fog Computing and its unique features as well as the comparison on various scenarios between the Fog Computing and Cloud Computing, the new issues and challenges in Fog security and Fog forensics are presented and discussed. The result of this study will encourage and promote more extensive research in this fascinating field, Fog security and Fog forensics.