Towards a Model-Based Framework for Forensic-Enabled Cloud Information Systems

摘要

One of the most important challenges for software engineers is the design and implementation of trustworthy cloud services. Information system designers face an important issue, the design of cloud forensic-enabled systems that could assist investigators solving cloud-based cyber-crimes. Although digital forensics assists on this direction, limited evidence of cloud-based forensic approaches exist. These approaches don't support information systems developers as they focus on the investigation only and also they don't support modelling potential cases of forensics investigations. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing a modelling language, presented in terms of a meta-model. Since most respective efforts focus on the investigation part a thorough analysis and a suggestion of a generic cloud forensic process is included as the main input for designing the proposed language.