Development of Digital Forensic Framework for Joint Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Platforms

Abstract

The cloud computing is nowadays an embarrassing computing technology by many organisations, academic institutions and business centres. Cloud Service Providers (CSP)s are limited to some resources, lacking some resources requested by its customers, this gives rise to the needs for interconnecting multiple clouds to interoperate and share resources. The interconnected clouds can be in different features and schemes, and the system can be prone to insecurity or intrusion. In this paper, we developed a Digital Forensics framework that can detect an intrusion within heterogeneous joint clouds. We also developed architecture and algorithm that can handle the joint clouds heterogeneity and complexity during inter-clouds resources management.