Implementation of a Cloud Computing Framework for Cloud Forensics

Cloud computing technologies occupy an important place in today's digital environment as they offer to the user attractive benefits such as file storage and renting virtual machines. In this context, at the datacenter level, we need a unified framework that permits reliable virtual and physical resource management, having in the same time the possibility for digital forensic investigators to access the data. Even though we have ready-to-use solutions that are already applied to the cloud resource allocation part, we lack the software infrastructure needed for conducting a digital forensic investigation. In this paper we will present the foundation of our proposed cloud forensics framework, that aims to resolve and unify into a single entity the two issues mentioned before. We will present in detail the architecture and the modifications needed to be made in order to create a digital forensic compliant framework.