A Consumer-Oriented Cloud Forensic Process Model

Abstract

In the process of cloud forensic investigation, roles and responsibilities of cloud consumers and cloud providers do not have clear delineation. Nevertheless, Consumers are responsible for collecting and analyzing data from their adopted cloud services for forensic purposes, thus, should have processes in place to identify, prioritize and collect data from cloud components that they are responsible for. Therefore, a cloud forensic process model that would guide a consumer before, during and after when an incident occurs is of vital importance. To develop such model authors have primarily defined requirements that should be met by forensic process models that aim to lead investigations in the cloud. As a result, a cloud forensic process model that takes consumer perspective into account has been proposed. Subsequently, its fulfillment of the proposed requirements is discussed.