Paper Info
Title
Locating and Tracking Digital Objects in the Cloud.
Abstract
One of the biggest stumbling blocks in a cloud forensic investigation is the inability to determine the physical location of a digital object in the cloud. In order to provide better accessibility to users, data in the cloud is not stored at a single location, but is spread over multiple data centers. This chapter proposes a model for providing data provenance and reporting on the provenance of a digital object in the cloud. It also examines how data provenance can be used to track where a digital object has been in the cloud and where the object can be found at any point in time. A special file type (wrapper) that encapsulates a digital object and its provenance data is proposed. The design helps preserve the integrity of provenance data and meets many of the requirements set for data provenance, including the support of cloud forensic investigations. The implementation requires each cloud service provider to maintain a central logging server that reports on the locations of wrapped objects in its domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24123-4_17
ADVANCES IN DIGITAL FORENSICS XI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud computing,cloud forensics,data provenance,central logging
File format,Multiple data,Cloud forensics,Computer science,Digital object,Cloud service provider,Database,Real-time locating system,Cloud computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
462
1868-4238
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philip M. Trenwith100.34
Hein S. Venter227349.79