Abstract:
There are various types of cloud services with
each type having a potentially different use in criminal
activity. The storage as a service (StaaS) is showing
significant growth as users adopt the capability to store
data in the cloud environment across a range of
devices. Cloud storage forensics has recently emerged
as a salient area of inquiry. One area of difficulty is the
identification and acquisition of potential data when
disparate services can be utilized by criminals. There is
a need for a sound digital forensic framework
relating to the forensic analysis of client devices to
identify potential data holdings. In this paper the
cloud storage forensic framework is proposed which
based on open source cloud StaaS application
(OwnCloud). In this paper, the evidences are created
and collected according to the Cloud users and Service
Provider actions using digital provenance scheme. The
cryptographic and hash algorithms are used to be the
reliable and trusted provenances at the evidence
generation and verification. The aims of this paper are
to help forensic examiners and to solve criminal cases
in the Cloud environment.
