The rapid increase of cybercrimes and wide-ranging security measures has created an obvious needfordeepunderstandingofsecurityvulnerabilitiesforCloudComputingenvironments,andfor best practices addressing such vulnerabilities. Cybercrime activities have affected many regional and international organizational functions and operations. Finding clear and direct evidence of cybercrimesiscritical,becausehugeamountsofdataareonnetworks,andtheanalysisofsuchdata

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... ty-enhancedclouddatatransactionmodelfor simplifyingandfilteringcybercrimeevidence.Themodelconsumesanumberofintrusion-detection sensorinputsthatcontributetocollectingandfine-tuninglargeitemsofevidenceatalowerlevel.A relevantevidence-processingcriteriaaredefinedforfurtherreductionandfine-tuningofcybercrime evidence.Initialresultsoftheup-to-datetestbedshowthatitispossibletoreducesubstantiallevels ofirrelevantpatternsfromrandomlycollecteddatasets.