Abstract:
The demand for cloud computing is
increasing because of the popularity of digital
devices and the wide use of internet. That makes
malicious users to make crimes. Therefore a study
of digital forensics investigations of cloud storage
is necessary. Hadoop Distributed File System
(HDFS) has been widely adopted to build cloud
storage as it provides reliable storage and high
throughput access. In this paper, HDFS based
private cloud storage is implemented,and digital
forensic framework is proposed which expands on
current methodologies. This framework is applied
for conducting the forensics investigation of cloud
storage. Experiments on private cloud storage are
conducted and highlighted a lot of useful
information that can be found by analyzing
artifacts left by Cloud Storage clients (PC
/Smartphone).The case study of the crime of a
company’s staff for the specification document of
banking system and examination of crime reports
concerning with cloud storage are presented.
