Abstract
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 commencement of the experiments. A number of digital forensic artifacts are found as part of these experiments and are used to support the selection of artifact categories and provide a technical summary to practitioners of artifact types. Finally we provide some general guidelines for future forensic analysis on open source StaaS products.
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