Chapter 6

Open Source Cloud Storage Forensics

ownCloud as a Case Study

The Storage as a Service (StaaS) cloud computing architecture 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. Using a widely used open source cloud StaaS application—ownCloud—as a case study, we document a series of digital forensic experiments with the aim of providing forensic researchers and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the artifacts required to undertake cloud storage forensics. Our experiments focus upon client and server artifacts, which are categories of potential evidential data specified before ...

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